PINS

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    VOLUBILIS     
MOROCCO  




PINS OF THE BONE 


A great people lived here,they were working hard before they were caught up in time,the sand from the east crawls alongs them.

They made their clothes beautiful buttons witness to their elegance.


Handle in the form of lioness,of bone.

Pin in the form of dolphin,of bone

A needle of bone

Buttons of bone


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