I thought the color and veins on those beads looked familar. I kept running the image around in my head until I remembered they looked like these beads. I bought them at the Santa Fe bead show 15 or so years ago. Out of theBlue was there and she told me they were "probably made by some renegade Eastern Indian beadmaker." I had to buy them because of the size and they were appealing even if they weren't that old. It's a huge necklace measuring over 40 cm!