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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 3464993, member: 55"]I'd think bone. Hard to identify the country of origin. There is a world-wide industry supplying bone beads to the bead-crafter's market, so in the craft stores one can find bone beads made in Indonesia, imitating shapes from Ethiopia, or with Eskimo, Samoan, Egyptian or Maori themes; beads from Thailand with Tibetan themes...and so on and on.</p><p>Thus a genuine ethnic necklace from Ethiopia ends up looking almost like one assembled by a crafter in the US from imported materials.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 3464993, member: 55"]I'd think bone. Hard to identify the country of origin. There is a world-wide industry supplying bone beads to the bead-crafter's market, so in the craft stores one can find bone beads made in Indonesia, imitating shapes from Ethiopia, or with Eskimo, Samoan, Egyptian or Maori themes; beads from Thailand with Tibetan themes...and so on and on. Thus a genuine ethnic necklace from Ethiopia ends up looking almost like one assembled by a crafter in the US from imported materials.[/QUOTE]
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