Muslim prayer beads.

Those are ivory beads.

They're Buddhist prayer beads.

Yes. But Buddhist prayer beads.

Maybe a little smaller, like beads.

They're warrior beads. They're from Indonesia.

Your beads and buckles and bows

Beads of sweat stood on his forehead.

There were beads of sweat on his forehead.

Those prayer beads, where did you get them?

There are approximately 3,500 ivory beads in this burial.

Did you find any rosary beads on the body?

And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old beads.

The gold spangles and beads stress the luxury of the item.

'Straight up and down like a curtain of small, clear beads.

The hooded clouds, like friars, tell their beads in drops of rain.

I spent a lot of time counting beads and things like that.

And we've just recently demonstrated this by putting extract of hydrocarbons on little glass beads, and dropping the beads gently down into the nest entrance at the right rate.

He just lay in the hospital bed, and, kind of, stared at the polystyrene ceiling tiles for a really long time.

You had a string of Buddhist prayer beads with you, and you never did say why.

By simply moving beads that each had place value an abacus was a highly efficient way to compute.

The little boy has 4,500 beads, so 1,000 more than the adult male, and the little girl has over 5,000.

This is a sculpture made from a million yards of wire and 150,000 glass beads the size of a golf ball.

So you have a clock, you have protein, and now a silk cup like this can be thrown away without guilt (Applause) unlike the polystyrene cups that unfortunately fill our landfills everyday.

First, the long thread of DNA wraps around proteins clustered into little beads called nucleosomes, which end up looking like a long, beaded necklace.

Those stones have been smuggled as three prayer beads of 33 stones each through Arabia into Andalusia in Spain, where they're safe for 200 years.

Out there beyond that fence, every living thing that crawls, flies or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for JuJu Beads

But in conjuring his life, it was okay and very straightforward to portray a Caribbean life in England in the 1970s with bowls of plastic fruit, polystyrene ceiling tiles, settees permanently sheathed in their transparent covers that they were delivered in.

And he actually took the mammoth ivory and practiced until he could get quite good at making the beads, and even when he was good at it, it took an hour per bead.

There are also already within the ice narrow oblong perpendicular bubbles about half an inch long, sharp cones with the apex upward or oftener, if the ice is quite fresh, minute spherical bubbles one directly above another, like a string of beads.

And the effect of this is that as the droplets start to form on the bumps, they stay in tight, spherical beads, which means they're much more mobile than they would be if it was just a film of water over the whole beetle's shell.

It goes up, and these microscopic glass beads are formed, instantly, and they're hardened by the time they fall down back to the surface of the Moon they have these beautiful colored glass spheres and these are actually microscopic, you need a microscope to see this.

I was going to say up into the air, but there is no air goes sort of up, and these microscopic glass beads are formed instantly, and they harden, and by the time they fall down back to the surface of the Moon, they have these beautiful colored glass spherules.

So, what we're seeing here then is potentially the fact that they're seeing death as being a state that's different than life, and yet worth recognizing and worth paying attention to, and worth acknowledging, and, frankly, worth the sheer amount of effort of making all those beads only to bury them in the ground and cover them up.