In ancient African graves, beads have been found buried with kings and chiefs. Some peoples thought that buried beads would grow. The beads were a sign of wealth, a token of affection, and of course, used as a mode of beautification. Many of these beads are made the same way today as they have been for centuries, by crushing glass to a fine powder and heating it so that the particles fuse together. The glass is then poured into clay molds, with a cassava leaf stem used to make the hole. They are baked in an oven and the glass fuses and the stem burns up. Beautiful, exotic, and unique. . .hardly describe these works of art. Beads are sold in sets of ten.
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