Akoso Rare Red Heirloom Powder Glass Bead Necklaces & Beads from Ghana

Akoso Rare Red Heirloom Powder Glass Beads from Ghana  Strand Approx. 22" long Bead Approx. 25mm x 25mm to 26mm x 30mm Origin is Ghana, West Africa These are African-made powder glass beads which are historically called "Bodom" and "Akoso Beads". The origins and date of manufacture for these beads is still in dispute but bead scholars have dated most examples to the late 1800's to the early 1900's Antique Akoso and Bodom Ghanaian powdered glass beads are recognized as usually having a thin yellow outer layer sometimes covering a dark gray or black core (Akosa Beads do not always have a dark core). They often display trailed cruciform designs and other hot worked decorative patterns possibly executed over updraft furnaces. The exact methods of Akosa and Bodom bead making is now a lost and forgotten technique which is no longer practiced by the current bead makers of Ghana. Bodom and Akoso Beads were created from antique recycled glass trade beads of European origin (which were broken o