Hellenistic Bactrian Glazed Quartz Bead Necklace javanese Ancestral spirits (bankambo) and other

Ancestral spirits (bankambo) and other beings (mikishi

male initiation

Korowai people: Papua's pint-size

These cross fragments may have once belonged to a larger

These spirits are honored through elaborate rituals and ceremonies that reaffirm lineage

Hellenistic Bactrian Glazed Quartz Bead Necklace javanese Ancestral spirits (bankambo) and otherGreco Bactrian Empire, c. 200BC to 100AD, Mazar e Sharif, Balkh, Afghanistan, Central South Asia. Absolutely stunning, massive and extremely rare necklace strung with 54 chiseled quartz beads from the regions of Balkh, made during the Greco Bactrian Empire and with remnants of later glazed colour (cobalt, light blue and turquise) during the Islamic Dynasties c. 800 to 1000 AD. Each bead is skillfully carved in the very hard quartz with faceted,