Heishe or heishi (pronounced "hee shee") are small disc- or tube-shaped beads made of organic shells or ground and polished stones.
[1] The name is the word for shell bead in the Eastern Keresan language of the Santo Domingo Indians.
[2] The oldest specimens of heishe date back to around 6000 BCE, although the same technique was used in northern Africa 30,000 years ago, using ostrich eggshell.
The beads are hand-chipped, with holes drilled through their centers using pointed stones.
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