Title: Glass Wedding Beads
Material: Glass
People: Various
Country: West Africa
Description: Wedding beads from Czechoslovakia
were used to trade as money in West Africa. They
are called wedding beads because each time a guy
dated a girl, he would bestow the girl he was courting
with a glass bead like this. The more beads she gathered,
the more desirable she'd become as a bride and hence
considered good wedding material!
Dimensions: 29" L x 1/2" W x 1/2" D - No two exactly alike as these strands consist of old trade beads.