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2. Trade beads - Wikipedia

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   Trade beads from ca. 1740, found in a Wichita village site in present-day Oklahoma Nineteenth-century European trade beads found in Alaska Chugach woven spruce-root hat. Trade beads are beads that were used as a medium of barter within and amongst communities. They are considered to be one of the earliest forms of trade between members of the ...

3. Jet (gemstone) - Wikipedia

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   Mary, Queen of Scots, owned jet buttons and clothes embroidered with jet beads. [43] Elizabeth I bought 1000 "black jet bugle drops" to embroider headdresses in 1587. [44] Anne of Denmark ordered a gown of "double burret" silk in June 1597 loaded with jet passementerie and 360 jet buttons. The gown was too heavy to wear and she ordered it to be ...

4. Śarīra - Wikipedia

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   Śarīra is a generic term referring to Buddhist relics, although in common usage it usually refers to pearl or crystal-like bead-shaped objects that are found among the cremated ashes of Buddhist spiritual masters. Relics of the Buddha after cremation are termed dhātu in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta. [1]

5. Tourmaline - Wikipedia

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   Today this tourmaline locality (type locality for dravite) at Dobrova (near Dravograd), is a part of the Republic of Slovenia. [9] Tschermak gave this tourmaline the name dravite, for the Drava river area, which is the district along the Drava River (in German: Drau, in Latin: Drave) in Austria and Slovenia.

6. Gemstones in the Bible - Wikipedia

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   The Phoenicians mounted beads of coral on collars and garments. These corals were obtained by Babylonian pearl-fishers in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean . The coral referred to in the Bible is the precious coral ( Corallium rubrum ), the formation of which is a calcareous secretion of certain polyps resulting in a tree-like formation.

7. Kiffa beads - Wikipedia

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   Kiffa beads were made in various shapes: blue, red, and polychromatic triangles with yellow, black, white, red and blue chevron-type and decorations that resemble eyes; blue, red and polychromatic diamond-shaped beads; cigar shaped and conical beads as well as a variety of small spherical and oblate beads. Colour sequences observed on ...