- Medium size blue Indo-Pacific beads mostly 5-7mm in excellent condition
- Only one 22-inch strand available, collected in 1990 in Indonesia
- The Indo-Pacific family of beads originated in Arikamedu in Southern India around 400 BC and quickly spread in all directions. Over the next few hundred years, they spread all over Southeast-Asia, throughout the Middle East and North Africa and all the way to Scandinavia in Europe, becoming the "greatest little trade bead of all time" according to bead researcher Pete Francis.
- These come in other colors, often aqua and blue, and these days are mostly coming to the US from the Sahara under a bevy of inaccurate names and burdened with fictitious stories that are far less interesting than the truth.