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African Trade Beads Teens25 this book should be aFirst made and worn 120,000 years ago, beads were originally made of natural materials stones, shells, wood and have been used for adornment, currency and burial offerings. Trade beads of polished stones and shells have a history thousands of years old, but the first glass beads were made in Egypt as cheaper mimics of precious stones. A thriving glass bead manufacturing industry began in Murano (Venice) in 1291, and the trade spread to Holland,