Perhaps the earliest glass-like beads were Egyptian faience beads, a form of clay bead with a self-forming vitreous coating.

The most exciting find, he added, was a reliquary containing three clay beads, a leaf, clay seals and parts of a Buddhist text written on bark.

He can have his sketchbooks, but I shan't give him anything else, not so much as a string of clay beads.

During rituals as such, areca nuts and fired clay beads are often used to summon birua or even for exorcising purposes.

Just clay beads; no one would swap us any food for it on the road.

She uses crystal beads, seashells, fake pearls, Chinese wooden beads, African money beads and clay beads from India.

The boy waved the string of beads on one finger-green clay beads on a thread without a clasp.

Dress was minimal, consisting of a small genital covering and decorative ornaments of feathers, pearls, gold, shell, clay beads, coral beads, bones, teeth, or flowers.

Her reading glasses, titanium half-frames in blue, teal and purple, hung from her neck on a string of two-dimensional clay beads in assorted, brightly colored designs.

He came on the right street at last and darted into the shop under the strings of red clay beads that ornamented its doorway.