There's one item I'd be interested in, if anyone knows about it...last year, I bought a necklace of lovely multicolor Tahitian circle pearls when I was on Rangiroa, very nice quality. I was sure it was knotted on black silk until I looked closely and discovered very tiny black spacer beads between the pearls. They didn't look like any sead beads I've ever seen, more of a very tiny disk shape, but not totally regular - they really gave the look of a knotted strand. They're not delicas or seed beads. My guess would be that they are made of shell or some sort of plastic. I guess there's even a possibility they are coconut shell. I can try to take a super close-up with my macro lens when I get home. Anybody ever encountered this before?
Sheri