Ancient African Excavated Djenne Mali Trade Bead Choker Necklace

Description

This is a listing for a choker length strand of mixed ancient beads in varying forms, sizes and age.  The necklace is many decades old.  The beads are hundreds of years old...ancient.  It's in excellent condition with it's original stringing...a heavy beading cord and no broken or missing beads.
As a whole, the arrangement is beautifully matched for size, shape and color.  And all of the beads are well over 100 years of age.  Many of them are ancient...so hundreds of years old.  It came from an estate collected by one woman, over decades of travel around the world.  She loved to collect vintage and antique ethnic pieces and this is one of them.
The beads were excavated from Djenne, Mali.  There are antique and ancient agates and other stone beads, many antique glass trade beads, some clear quartz, opaque glass and ancient ceramic.  The colors are neutral with a sprinkling of green.  A large carved agate bead creates a toggle.  A loop macraméd
from heavy linen slips over the stone, for an elegant clasp that can easily serve as a pendant when turned around.
The necklace measures 17 inches in length, so is a choker length.  It weighs a substantial 63 grams.  The beads very slightly graduate, with the smaller beads near the clasp measuring 3/8th of an inch in diameter and .25 inches thick.  And the larger beads in the center measuring 5/8th of an inch across and just over 3/8th of an inch thick.
Every bead is hand carved, of course, and was a source of beauty and adornment for it's wearer, preserved through centuries, buried, excavated and in the past century restrung into another necklace... to be worn and enjoyed again as much as it was centuries ago.  It will arrive by Priority mail.  Thank you for looking.