Tabular Mali Wedding Beads, Moon Glass Color, Long 28-inch Strand

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  • Tabular "moon glass" color wedding glass beads. long 28-inch strand
  • Moon glass, aka Milk glass is a semi-translucent off white color, sometimes with blue or grye highlights. It was popular in vintage drinkware as well. 
  • Mali Wedding beads are molded Czech glass reproductions of an earlier stone design popular in the Sahel region and northwest coast of Africa
  • Made in Bohemia (now Czech Republic) between about 1850 to early 1900s
  • Traded to Africa where they became especially popular among the Fulani of Mali.
  • I've heard two stories about why they are called Wedding beads: a) they are passed from mother to daughter at the latter's marriage, b) they are worn by drummers who perform at Fulani weddings