The image of the elephant expressed the authority of the king while the beadwork reinforced this royal association, since beads were reserved for those of noble lineage.
There's also the nazar (most popular in Turkey), a royal blue glass bead with circles in the middle resembling a pupil.
By the end of the 17th century, England's Royal African Company alone had exchanged cloth, beads, iron and rum for 175,000 captured Africans, according to a companion book to the exhibition published by the Smithsonian and the Mariners MuseumMariners Museum
Portia de Rossi's dress in that scene, for example, was this pretty royal blue dress with these little bugle beads that I'd bought at Barneys or some place.
Downtown, where the material is mostly African, an array of beaded ritual objects, sculptures, royal regalia and personal shrines illuminates both the indigenous tradition and its expansion by the arrival of brightly colored beads from Europe.
Beads can also be stuck to give the saree a royal look.
Sport played a large role, although no exact sport came to mind for track shorts, apparently in leather; bomber jackets with Masai beading, and "onesies," as the jump suits are called, in hazard-warning-orange or royal blue.
Mashamboy and other masks made of raffia and decorated with shells, beads, and even bells and feathers were traditionally used to dramatize the founding of the royal dynasty and its matrilineal system of descent.
Intrigues within the royal court may explain why Saudi foreign policy, which has traditionally been discreet and cautious and conducted largely behind bead curtains, is so overt.
