Tunisian Womanhoods's ornamental cham. Gold coins inherited from ancestresses deck the headdress of young Tunisian women, while a wealth of barbaric ornaments is suspended over the bosom. Tattooed marks disfigure their otherwise pleasing faces; often a tattooed cross may be seen, which some aver, though the meaning no longer exists, was the sign whereby the converts, when Christianity across North Africa, proclaimed their faith.