Ancient, Indo-Pacific Beads, Aqua Color, Good Condition Large Beads, 25-inch Strand
Ancient, Indo-Pacific Beads, Aqua Color, Good Condition Large Beads, 25-inch Strand
Ancient, Indo-Pacific Beads, Aqua Color, Good Condition Large Beads, 25-inch Strand

Ancient, Indo-Pacific Beads, Aqua Color, Good Condition Large Beads, 25-inch Strand

SKU: GLA-25
Sale price $59.00

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Description

  • 25-inch strand, of mostly aqua color Indo-Pacific beads found near Djenne in Mali
  • Beautiful strand with large beads, 5-12mm in very good condition with very little weathering/crizzeling showing
  • The Indo-Pacific family of beads originated in Arikamedu in Southern India around 400 BC and quickly spread in all directions. Over the next few hundred years, they reached all over Southeast-Asia, throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and all the even to Scandinavia in Europe, becoming the "greatest little trade bead of all time" according to bead researcher Pete Francis.
  • They come in other colors, brown (mostly found in SE Asia) often aqua and blue from north Africa. Yellow and green are more rare. These days they are mostly coming to the US from the Sahara under an array of made up names, and burdened with fictitious stories that are less interesting than the truth.