Dutch Cobalt Hand Wound Beads 18th-19th Century Dogon Heirloom Beads / Necklaces Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus The All-Powerful Hand symbolizes the

The All-Powerful Hand symbolizes the Wounded Hand of the Crucified Christ

The earth-mother herself spoke: "Bless him/her who sits on the Axis Mundi

but the Dominicans assumed the Franciscans would provide one

the Legend of the Holy Virgin's Apparition in the Holy Cave

Individually shaped beads pressed in a mould containing the sacred image of the Meditating Buddha

Dutch Cobalt Hand Wound Beads 18th-19th Century Dogon Heirloom Beads / Necklaces Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus The All-Powerful Hand symbolizes theDutch Cobalt Hand Wound Beads 18th 19th Century Dogon Heirloom Beads Some of the earliest hand wound glass beads that entered the African Trade were created in Holland. These large, deeply cobalt blue colored beads were extensively traded among the Dogon people of Mali, West Africa in the 18th and 19th century Spice Trade. The beads were carried into Mali via early Dutch Traders and were sometimes also referred to as Dutch East India Company Trade