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• Very Rare Black
Mixed Colored Hebron Beads (Circa mid 1800s); Origin: Hebron;
Collected: Africa (Wound Beads made from Dead Sea Salts)
• Coconut Shell Heishe Beads (Circa mid 1900s); Origin:
Africa; Collected: Africa
• Handcrafted Sterling Silver Bicone Beads and Toggle Clasp
from Bali
• Sterling Silver Findings
• Finished with Silver French Bullion
• Length: 18.5”
N0904-107: $325.00
(free S&H)
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RARE HEBRON (KANO)
BEADS: Wound Hebron Beads are known to have been made in
the 12th Century until 1880s in Hebron, near Jerusalem,
using salt from the Dead Sea as their alkali. The most
common color is Ochre Yellow, shades of Blue and Green are
more uncommon, and the Black and Multi-Colored Specks are
extremely rare because they were made to emulate earlier
Roman and Islamic “Crumb” beads. These ancient opaque
yellow and green wound beads were eventually imported to
Egypt. From there, they went up the Nile to kingdoms what
are now Sudan and Chad beginning in the 1700s. These
beads, locally called mongur, were greatly admired by the
women. By the late 1800s, Hebron discontinued making these
beads. By the 1930s the beads, which had not been
available for 50 years, had gone out of fashion and
itinerant Hausa bead traders bought them for a song. They
took them home to Kano, Nigeria and ground the rounded
ends flat to make the beads on a strand to fit together
well. Today, they sell them in Khartoum at steep prices to
the granddaughters and great-granddaughters of the women
who once gave them away, calling them Kano Beads. It was
once believed they were made in Kano, but we now know they
were only altered there. These “rarest of them all” Hebron
Beads were made in mid-1800s in Hebron and collected in
Sudan, Africa.
COCONUT SHELL OR PALM NUT SHELL HEISHE BEADS: These old coconut
shell disc heishe beads were handcut and purposedly graduated in
size. They were cut around mid-1900s in Africa and collected in
Africa.
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