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Recycled Ghanaian Glass Bottle Beads
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Description
- Recycled glass beads - Ghana - West Africa
- Approximate dimensions:30cm x 0.5cm x 0.5cm
- Recycled glass beads (or bottle glass beads) are an excellent example of creative recycling in Africa
- Ghanaian craftsmen and women smash old or broken bottles into pieces as big as peppercorns
- The end product is heated in a wood fire and polished to perfection
- Throughout West Africa, glass beads have long held sacred symbolism among indigenous cultures
- Tribes such as the Mossi of Burkina Faso and the Baoule of the Cote d‚ôIvoire believe that the essence of their ancestors lives on in beads, and that by wearing them, they may benefit from the knowledge and wisdom of their forebearers
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