Wood Beads, Ojime, Nuts, Pits, Beads made of Seeds: before glass and gems

Vintage and antique beads made from wood, nuts or seeds. -most made Victorian era to the 1960's, some contemporary.  Large selection of carved, painted or plain: wood beads, fruit pits, seed pods, burlwood, bayong, palm, bamboo, ebony, rosewood, tropical hardwoods, and other types of woods,  Also carved seeds and pits made into beads. Japanses Ojime beads carved from boxwood.  Seeds and wood are among the earliest forms of jewelry as were bone and shell...beads made from the shell of an ostrich egg are thought to be 70,000 years old!  Many have ethnic origins.