#kiffa

[nnnorthaaafrican]

Mauritania. Woman and her young daughter making pearls, Kiffa, 1956.

Guy Le Rumeur.

[gffa]

Star Wars - Alien Archive: A Guide to the Species of the Galaxy

Deep in the stacks of the Graf Archive, an old traveller's journal has been discovered and restored for public viewing. A long time ago this unknown traveller documented his stories about the many creatures found in each destination he explored, and includes famous movie locations such as the Mos Eisley cantina on Tatooine, Maz's Castle and the holy city of Jedha. The archivist restored this journal and added facts and stats about the cultures, legends and famous members of over 200 species, including famous characters such as Chewbacca, Ahsoka, Wicket and many more. “Unable to authenticate the author, and therefore the accuracy of the stories within the journal, we have paired some of the content that has not been destroyed by age with data entries from our scientific records.  With details of over two hundred aliens from across galatic history, we are happy to restore this enigmatic journal for public viewing.  --Xoddam Lothipp, Deputy Director, Graf Archive” (aka, it’s an in-universe reference book, so it’s reasonably accurate, but some things may be added for artistic license or not wholly accurate, but from the POV of the “author” of the journal!  Which makes for a fascinating in-universe reference book!)

[sahljournal]

Women in Kiffa, Mauritania. dcoreraphotography https://instagram.com/p/BH5QFOfBjsD/

[sahljournal]

Kiffa, Mauritania.

[sammys-magical-au]

I just wanna gush about one of my OCs from TGU for a sec here guys bear with me. Also spoilers.

One thing I love about my characterization of Kiffa is that xe’s a huge nerd but xe breaks the stereotypical definition of a nerd character by being emotionally intelligent as well. Xe catches onto the fact that Max has a crush on Azadri before Sebastian - Max’s own cousin - figures it out. Xe encourages Azadri to come out of her shell not just with positivity but with data from studies on self esteem xe’s read that prove that being true to herself will make her happier with herself overall. Xe doesn’t shame Sebastian or make him feel lesser for not being as quick with things but instead explaining things he doesn’t catch on to right away - which I especially like because typically the nerd is the oblivious one and the sweet guy/himbo (which ‘Bas absolutely is 😂) is the feelings guy. In this case Kiffa is the tech genius, the walking encyclopedia, but xe also cares a lot about xer friends’ feelings and makes an effort to look out for signs that they’re unhappy.

I just love xem!!! ❤️

[night-terrors-official]

Aand a Kiffa character moodboard! ❤️

I wanna do both a pride moodboard and a general character moodboard for at least the four main characters of TGU

Moodboard requests are open!

[night-terrors-official]

A couple more TGU ocs - Kiffa & Cupcake 😁 Cupcake doesn’t belong to Kiffa but Kiffa is a cat person so he’s drawn to xem naturally now that xe lives with his owners 💖

Btw at some point I’m gonna do some informational sketches on all the alien characters’ species in TGU, bc Kiffa and Azadri are only two of them

[beadsofparadisenyc]

Absolutely in love with this colorful strand of contemporary Kiffa beads from Mauritania. Kiffa beads are rare powder glass beads, named after the Mauritanian city of Kiffa, where French ethnologist R.Mauny documented them first in 1949. Kiffa beads  represent one of the highest levels of artistic skill and ingenuity in beadmaking, being manufactured with the simplest materials and tools available: pulverized European glass beads or fragments of them, bottle glass, pottery shards, tin cans, twigs, steel needles, some gum arabic, and open fires. #kiffa #kiffabeads #mauritania #kiffastyle #handmadebeads #handmadejewelry #artglass #glassbeads #handmadeglassbeads #handmadeglass #wearableart #uniquebeads #pattern #patternedbeads #fashion #style #shop #nyc #unionsquare #beadsofparadise (at Beads of Paradise NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZXerTUuDq1/?utm_medium=tumblr