Indo-Pacific Beads, Brick Red, 3-5mm on 20" Strands, Excellent Condition
SKU: GLA-37
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Description
- Small, brick-red Indo-Pacific beads mostly 3-5mm in excellent condition
- Now only one strand left with the smallest beads - 2-4mm
- 22-inch strands collected in 1990 in Indonesia
- 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 spread all over Southeast-Asia, throughout the Middle East and 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, often aqua and blue, and these days are mostly coming to the US from the Sahara under a bevy of inaccurate names and burdened with fictitious stories that are far less interesting than the truth.