Malian Strand of Beads

A fine grey-blue strand of tiny beads, pale ones scattered like frost.

This strand of beads is from Mali, West Africa. It is excavated glass. Glass beads were traded over long distances and turn up at sites across Africa and Asia. Small round and tube beads in slate, steel blue and soft grey, with scattered cream and white beads. The surface is dull and softly weathered. The strand hangs in a long oval, thin thread showing at the top.

Quiet, cool and impossible to rush.