Indo-Pacific Beads, Mostly 8mm, Blue on 22" Strands
SKU: GLA-36
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$125.00
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Description
- Large dark blue Indo-Pacific beads mostly 8mm in excellent condition
- 22-inch strands collected in 1991 in Thailand
- 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.