A small handful of what I call "Level 1" powder glass beads. This is the type that was being made when I first visited the Krobo beadmaking region of Ghana in 1972. Pulverized glass, mostly from bottles, was sifted into clay molds and heated until the glass fused.
Alternating layers of different colored glass created the stripes you see in the beads.
There are 2 newer (the bright blue discs) that got into this mix by accident and the yellow beads were made from yellow beads that have been crushed for African beadmaking for over 100 years.
The speckled beads are what we call "crumb" beads made up of crushed glass from broken beads of various colors and put into the mold together.
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