Add color and a cultural touch to your favorite outfits with this powder glass bead necklace handmade in West Africa. It's colorful, fun and features a long row of intricately decorated powder glass beads suspended from a chain of black and red beads.
Wearing beaded jewelry connects you to African cultural traditions that go back at least 12,000 years. "Beads were used as adornment or works of art. In some African economies they also served as currency. As adornment they were important in defining and identifying someone’s status, as well as what group or community they belonged to."
Today, you can shop AFRK World Market for handmade jewelry from communities around the world.
MATERIAL: Powder glass beads, onyx beads
LENGTH: 24 inches
HANDMADE: Burkina Faso
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