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incredibly teal koli beads with a tuareg pendant

Posted by Julianna Lindsey on October 21, 2011 at 10:24pm
incredibly teal koli beads with a tuareg pendant
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  • Julianna Lindsey October 22, 2011 at 10:38am

    Hi Arie,

     

    Koli beads are glass trade beads appreciated by the Krobo people in Ghana.  Normally, they are a powder blue color, but I found these teal-colored ones a few months ago and snapped them all up.  They have an amazing luminosity when in the sunlight and I was thrilled when the coincidentally matched the agate in the Tuareg pendant.

     

    Here's a link to an article about the koli beads:  http://www.thebeadsite.com/bnaf-agg.htm

     

    best,
    Julianna

  • Stefany Tomalin October 22, 2011 at 3:44pm
    recently i acquired some strings of the "twice-cooked" dichroic blue (rather than teal) beads from Ghana and Nigeria as shown and described in the article quoted by Peter Francis- and would be willing to sell a few to scholars or collectors... so enquiries welcome-
  • Stefany Tomalin October 22, 2011 at 4:22pm
    yes i just added 3 images- the strands are mixed...
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