Indo-Pacific Beads, 7-10mm, Aqua with Heavy Patina, 25" Strand
SKU: GLA-31
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Description
- Hefty strand of large aqua Indo-Pacific beads 7-10mm, with heavy patina, but gorgeous aqua color is showing thorugh
- 25-inch strand, found near Djenne in Mali
- 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 way 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 a bevy of made up names and burdened with fictitious stories that are far less interesting than the truth.