Beautifully illustrated, Collectible Beads meticulously explores and documents the rise and development of a collecting passion. The authoritative volume takes readers on a rich and exciting journey of discovery, charting the tremendous worldwide growth over the last twenty years of ancient, ethnographic and contemporary beads as Collectibles. In celebrating the first and most universal form of personal adornment, Collectible Beads significantly furthers the recognition of beads as a revealing and inspiring symbol of humanity's cultural and spiritual aspirations.