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agate beads excavated from Djenne Mali gneiss beads excavated from Djenne Mali carnelian beads excavated from Djenne Mali

"Agate and jasper pendants, probably illegally excavated in Djenne, Mali." *

"Gneiss beads, supposedly illegally excavated in Djenne, Mali, attributed to the Dogon."

"Carnelian beads, probably shaped in Cambay, India, illegally excavated in Djenne, Mali"
Beads were made for trading. But now you’re trying to make me feel guilty for owning them just because they’ve been buried for a thousand years in an ancient desert city in west Africa. What good are they in the ground, these tiny labors of love? What good are they in a dusty museum locked forever away from human touch?

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*caption source: Collectible Beads by Robert K. Liu (1995)