Ancient, Indo-Pacific Beads From Indoneasia, Brick Red Color, 3-5mm on 22-inch Strand
Ancient, Indo-Pacific Beads From Indoneasia, Brick Red Color, 3-5mm on 22-inch Strand
Ancient, Indo-Pacific Beads From Indoneasia, Brick Red Color, 3-5mm on 22-inch Strand

Ancient, Indo-Pacific Beads From Indoneasia, Brick Red Color, 3-5mm on 22-inch Strand

SKU: GLA-68
Sale price $39.00

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Description

  • Beautiful ancient, brick red Indo-Pacific beads from Indonesia 2-5mm b
  • 22-inch strand, collected in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1992
  • 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 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 from north Africa. Yellow and green are more rare.