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Hello Anne Your bead appears to be a drawn European bead from the 1900s that has been modified by "cooking". Beads like these are supposed to imitate "aggrey" beads. Other examples of beads said to have served similar purposes are Keta Awuazi beads (this being their Krobo name) - powder glass beads made by the Yoruba in Nigeria, before WWII, in horizontal moulds (longitudinal seams are often visible), and Awuazi beads (Krobo name) - powder glass beads made in Ghana (1920s) whose colour is said to originate from glass of broken cold cream jars (some of these beads were decorated with longitudinal stripes). Another member of this family are the so-called Tehe Koli beads (Krobo name),stone koli, also made in pre WWII Nigeria - these are manufactured from fragments of drawn European beads and powder glass. You may like to check out the article on "aggrey" beads - link inserted below. Hope this helps. Evelyn I've just noticed that the images appear in the following sequence, from top: 1 - Keta Awuazi 2 - Tehe Koli 3 - Awuazi All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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