This 21″ necklace is made using 16ga copper wire, some really nice matte glass beads, and some African trade beads from Ghana. The 4″ bone goddess hangs between two fluted brass beads. I like this necklace for it’s “earthy” feel.
The African trade beads were acquired at a flea market where I came upon a bead vendor who had a few hanks of these and I just had to have a strand. I didn’t know what to do with them right away but a few weeks down the road I was in a local bead shop owned by a friend of mine when I saw her new bone goddesses in her display case. WELL! I knew what to do with some of those African beads as soon as I saw the goddesses.