Malian Beaded Bracelets 41.4 Article

Worn as protective amulets as well as for other ritual uses, glass beads were considered a valuable commodity and reused, restrung or made into something else: for example, the goat leather bracelets made from these beads that we sell. Their extraordinarily small size made it possible to make bracelets significantly narrower and more detailed than the more ordinary variety of larger-sized seed beads, common in Mali and other parts of Africa.