A LOT WITH 99! PUMTEK PETRIFIED WOOD BEADSBurma/ Myanmar, Pyu Culture c, 7th to 9th Century A.D and later. Of different sizes and shapes, including tubular beads, round beads, or quadrangular beads, all etched in various distinctive geometric patterns.Condition: Very good condition with expected age-related wear, some with minor nicks. Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.Weight: 667 g (total) Dimensions: Length c. 1.3 cm – 5.5 cmAlso known as 'buried thunder-bolt beads', these beads are made of petrified wood, which has turned to stone as result of a particular type of fossilization - the trees or tree like plants having completely transitioned to stone by a process of permineralization, all the organic material transforming to mineral.