Silver Beads

Pointed beads with dotted triangles, like a spill of tiny diamonds.

This is a coin silver beads. Silver beads are often textured with grooves, granules or stamped patterns, and the metal softens in tone with time and handling. Photographed, a heap of double pointed, faceted beads, each face decorated with rows of fine dots forming triangles. Several have round string holes. The surface is bright gray with darker recesses, and a few look dented or flattened. It is 0.25 inches long and 0.25 deep.

Pinpoint patterns on a very small scale.