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The bead is a relatively small type of thing that is hollow in the middle as a place to be entered by a kind of thread or string and then strung together as a string. The beauty of this bead depends on the material used, the shape of the dyestuff that is added to the skill and the making technique. An American beads expert, Peter Francis Jr. says "Manik is a beautiful thing. Each item is a small piece of art. Truly beads are the first known art form anywhere. Everyone likes it: no one does not use it! "

The manic function in society is as a jewelry and a means of religious ceremony. As ancient beads' objects are very important for archaeological research and the history of human civilization.
1. Type Manik
Based on the material then there are glass beads, stones, shells, bones, grains, wood, merjan, pearls, resin, clay and metal. This bead material to determine the beauty and price if marketed. The beads of clay certainly can not beat the beads of stone or glass.
2.Teknik Making
Beads made with stages:
- formed
- hollowed out
- decorated

melted bead materials (eg, metal and glass) or softened (eg clay and resin), their shape may be molded according to the interest of the manufacturer. In the process of molding the bead shape also prepared a hole for the strap. If the material is hard as stone and wood, then the shape is made by means of sharpening, rubbing or grinding, while the dangling holes are made by drilled. As a result the shape of the bead is often asymmetrical and the dangling hole shape is not straight or equal.

The technique of making ornaments, especially on the colorful bead whose material can be melted, is done in the smelting workshop. Beads and color materials are both heated then the color material is applied with certain tools so that it is attached in accordance with the location and shape desired.
3. Bead shape
These small and beautiful objects are of various forms, ie cylindrical discs, cylinders, pipes, cones, round, ellipses, rings, tabular, prisms, cubes, rectangular, rectangular, hexagons, cubes without angles, rhombic, flat-necked beads, vats, starfruit, multicolored plane, caged, murbel, decapitated pyramid, panel beads, segments, long, bird beads, sun beads, tuma beads and others.