Wedding Beads, Antique Tabular Shape, Red on Short 11-inch Strand
SKU: AFT-213
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$60.00
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Description
- Tabular, antique semi-opaque red glass wedding beads on short 11-inch strand. Early red glass required gold as a colorant and is thus more expensive than other colors of glass. Only one strand available
- Mali Wedding beads are molded Czech glass reproductions of an earlier stone design popular in the Sahel region and northwest coast of Africa
- Made in Bohemia (now Czech Republic) between about 1850 to early 1900s
- Traded to Africa where they became especially popular among the Fulani of Mali.
- I've heard two stories about why they are called Wedding beads: a) they are passed from mother to daughter at the latter's marriage, b) they are worn by drummers who perform at Fulani weddings