Various ancient decorated stone beads

Burma

Ancient decorated beads.

Ancient Pumtek with Diamond Shaped Eyes

Ancient Pumtek with six eyes.

Ancient Pyu/Tircul Pumtek Bead

Ancient Pumtek with 6 Eyes

Ancient Tabular Agate with four raised eyes. 

Also called a "Double Infinity Agate" 

Ex Dr James Keats Collection

21 mm

Ancient Rock Crystal Tiger Bead. Notice how
the tail curls over the top of the body.

Ex Dr James Keats Collection
Pyu/Tircul Period 

35 mm x 18 mm

Ancient Green Chalcedony Beads

Ancient Pyu/Tircul Stone Elephant Bead

Ancient carnelian tortoise or turtle.

Ancient Pyu/Tircul Carnelian Bead

Ancient Pyu/Tircul Green Chalcedony
Conch or Chank Shell bead.

Ancient Pyu/Tircul Tiger bead

Material: Green Chalcedony

Ancient Pyu/Tircul Double Lotus Bead

Material: Green Chalcedony

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Ancient Pyu/Tircul Bird Bead

Material: Green Chalcedony

Pumtek with 5 zig zag stripes.

38 mm x 16 mm

Above: Pumtek strand sourced in India in the 1980s.

Ancient Pyu/Tircul Bead
with blood spots

19.64 mm

Ancient Tircul Bead

15.27 mm

12 stripe Pumtek

 A man from the Haka Chin tribe (1918 to 1935) is seen wearing a large necklace
of Pumtek. Published in Burma Frontier Photographs
Photo by James Henry Green