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A Gift From the Gods — Taiwan’s Paiwan Glass Beads

The following is a short story from the Paiwan people, an indigenous people of Taiwan. They are well known for their mastery of glass beads, also referred to as Paiwan glass beads. Once upon a time, the sun deity went down to the human world to look for a nice and beautiful land that was ...

Hermann Rohr

A Paiwan glass bead necklace.