The Agadez Cross (also Agadès Cross, Cross of Niger, French: Croix d’Agadez) is the most popular category of Saharan Berber jewelry made especially by the Tuareg people of Niger. Only a few of this jewelry really looks like a cross. For most of them, it is a pendant with a varied silhouette, related either to a cross (tanaghilt), or to a form of plate or shield ( talhakim ). The former is made of stone or copper. The blacksmiths generally use silver and the so-called lost wax casting process without ever hammering the metal