Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Bedik woman with traditional necklaces and beads. Bassari country, east Senegal. This area became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2012, for cultural landscape and traditions kept by the the Bassari,...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Buddhist Monk hands holding prayer beads in Samdo village (3.690 m). Manaslu Conservation Area, Himalayas, Nepal, October 2009. No release available.

Guy Edwardes / Beads of water trapped on vibrant green moss Landmannalaugar, Southern Iceland, July 2009.

Jeff Foott / Maasai women creating traditional bead jewellery, children watching. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. 2007.

Jeff Foott / Maasai women creating traditional bead jewellery, children watching. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. 2007.

Jeff Foott / Maasai woman creating traditional bead jewellery. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. 2007.

Jeff Foott / Maasai woman creating traditional bead jewellery. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. 2007.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims holding prayer beads, praying. Ganden Thubchen Choekhorling Monastery, Litang, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China. 2016.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Men of the Wodaabe ethnic group in makeup and traditional dress singing, dancing, parading and displaying teeth as part of Gerewol gathering of different clans. Young women choose who will be their hu...

Jeff Foott / Maasai woman working on bead work, Maasai Village, Kenya. September 2006.

Ashley Cooper / Inuit women wearing traditional Greenlandic national costume or Kalaallisuut, Ilulissat on Greenland. The costume consists of seal skin boots (Unnaat) bead necklaces (Nuilaqutit) and seal skin trouser...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Portrait of girl at carnival, Eticoga, Orango Island, Bijagos UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Guinea Bissau, February 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Back of girl at carnival, Eticoga, Orango Island, Bijagos UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Guinea Bissau, February 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Young girl wearing traditional headdress, Mursi tribe, Mago National Park. Omo Valley, Ethiopia.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Young girl wearing traditional headdress. Mursi tribe, Mago National Park. Omo Valley, Ethiopia.

Eric Baccega / Himba woman threading metal beads to adjust her traditional 'Omohanga' foot ornament, a 21 strand layered anklet, indicating if she is married and has children, Marienfluss Valley. Kaokoland, Namibia...

Eric Baccega / Close-up of traditional Himba woman foot ornaments - 'Omohanga', a 21 strand layered anklet made with metal beads, indicating if she is married and has children, Marienfluss Valley. Kaokoland, Namibia...

Aflo / Chocolate brown toy poodle puppy wearing pink beads in studio.

Pete Oxford / Elderly Konyak Naga woman in traditional dress. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Elderly Konyak Naga woman with traditional jewelry. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Elderly Konyak Naga woman in traditional dress. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga woman with traditional dress and jewellry. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Kalij pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos) and beads for sale in market. Daporijo Town, Arunachal Pradesh, North East India, November 2014.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Neolithic stone beads, Niamey, Niger, 2004.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Neolithic stone beads, Niamey, Niger, 2004.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Neolithic stone beads, Niamey, Niger, 2004.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Jewellery including beads, conus shells and meteorites. Atar market, Mauritania, 2005.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Jewellery including beads, conus shells and meteorites. Atar market, Mauritania, 2005.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Jewellery including beads, conus shells and meteorites. Atar market, Mauritania, 2005.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Ancient terracotta Bambara head carving and amber beaded necklace. Mali, 2005-2006.

Lynn M Stone / Spangled Skimmer (Libellula incesta) covered with beads of dew, on stem of Joe-Pye Weed, in wetland; North Guilford, Connecticut, USA, July

Gavin Hellier / Colourful beads hanging for sale, Mutrah Souq, Muscat, Oman 2007

Gavin Hellier / Colourful beads hanging for sale, Mutrah Souq, Muscat, Oman 2007

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Bedik woman with traditional necklaces and beads. Bassari country, east Senegal. This area became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2012, for cultural landscape and traditions kept by the the Bassari,...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Bedik woman with traditional necklaces and beads. Bassari country, east Senegal. This area became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2012, for cultural landscape and traditions kept by the the Bassari,...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Bedik woman with traditional necklaces and beads. Bassari country, east Senegal. This area became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2012, for cultural landscape and traditions kept by the the Bassari, F...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Bedik woman with traditional necklaces and beads. Bassari country, east Senegal. This area became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2012, for cultural landscape and traditions kept by the the Bassari,...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Buddhist Monk hands with prayer scripture and beads in Samdo village (3.690m). Manaslu Conservation Area, Himalayas, Nepal, October 2009.

Brent Stephenson / Black-browed (Thalassarche melanophrys) or Campbell albatross (Thalassarche impavida) young rests on the water with beads of water on its back, off Whitianga, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, Novemb...

Jeff Rotman / A Turkana girl, Lake Turkana, Kenya, April 2008.

Guy Edwardes / Beads of water trapped on vibrant green moss Landmannalaugar, Southern Iceland, July 2009.

David Fleetham / Handmade beaded necklaces for sale in a large famous Indian market in the town of Otavalo, Equador.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Traditional Nenets toy cradle and baby made from a goose's breast bone. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia, February 2007.

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Flower of String of beads (Halopeplis perfoliata) plant. Khawr Ghawi, Oman.

Piper Mackay / Portrait of an elder Kuna woman, Panama, November 2008

Piper Mackay / Young Embera Indian man dressed in self made traditional beaded skirt, Panama, November 2008

Piper Mackay / Young Embera Indian man heading down the Chagres River, dressed in the traditional beaded skirt (of the Panama flag) Panama, November 2008

Piper Mackay / Embera Indian girl sitting on a docked boat, Chagres River, Panama, November 2008