He wore no clerical collar, just a necklace of pendants with images of the Virgin Mary and Christ on the cross.
On this narrow street, dozens of shop windows display everything gold: wedding bands, earrings, bracelets, miniature Korans, pendants with the name Allah inscribed on them.
His mother, Jeanette, was walking around the back of the room taking photos and flashing the thumbs-up sign, gold pendants with figures of a little boy and a sprinter swaying on her neck.
Gold coins and pendants with fine engravings of Indian Gods are often bought on the many auspicious occasions as a sign of prosperity, for instance on Akshaya Tritiya, a popular Hindu festival (which fell on April 24th this year).
Ornamentation is often subject to adaptation, as when Native American groups replaced heavy stone pendants with metal ornaments in the period between Columbian contact and military conquest; such ornaments are readily visible in historical portraits of important indigenous personages.
