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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Glass beads, supposed to be of ancient Egyptian manufacture, occasionally found in the Ashantee and Fanti countries.

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  • Workers in gold and ivory, in gems and talismans, in brass and fine linen and purple had done the marvels which those courtier adventurers brought with them over the sea, and to these, from year to year, had been added the treasure of private chests -- necklaces and coronals and hair-loops, bottles and vases of glass coloured with metallic oxides, and patterned aggry-beads, now sometimes found in ancient tombs on the Ashantee coasts.

    Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

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