Roy Mangersnes / Low clouds over the glacier, Engelskbukta, Western Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, September

Philip Stephen / Fishing vessel "Harvester" on a stormy North Sea. Europe, November 2010. Property released.

Guy Edwardes / Beads of water trapped on vibrant green moss Landmannalaugar, Southern Iceland, July 2009.

Ashley Cooper / Inuit women wearing traditional Greenlandic national costume or Kalaallisuut, Ilulissat on Greenland. The costume consists of seal skin boots (Unnaat) bead necklaces (Nuilaqutit) and seal skin trouser...

Jeff Foott / Maasai woman working on bead work, Maasai Village, Kenya. September 2006.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Portrait of girl at carnival, Eticoga, Orango Island, Bijagos UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Guinea Bissau, February 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Back of girl at carnival, Eticoga, Orango Island, Bijagos UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Guinea Bissau, February 2015.

Ingo Arndt / Portrait of an old Masai woman wearing glasses and adorned with bead work, Kenya

Ingo Arndt / Portrait of an old Masai woman wearing glasses and adorned with bead work, Kenya

Ingo Arndt / Portrait of a Masai woman adorned with bead work, Kenya

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Young girl wearing traditional headdress. Mursi tribe, Mago National Park. Omo Valley, Ethiopia.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Young girl wearing traditional headdress, Mursi tribe, Mago National Park. Omo Valley, Ethiopia.

Aflo / Miniature dachshund with pink bead necklace in studio.

Pete Oxford / Elderly Konyak Naga woman in traditional dress. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Elderly Konyak Naga woman with traditional jewelry. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Elderly Konyak Naga woman in traditional dress. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga woman with traditional dress and jewellry. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Kalij pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos) and beads for sale in market. Daporijo Town, Arunachal Pradesh, North East India, November 2014.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Neolithic stone beads, Niamey, Niger, 2004.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Neolithic stone beads, Niamey, Niger, 2004.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Neolithic stone beads, Niamey, Niger, 2004.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Bead trader, Chinguetti, Mauritania, 2005.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Jewellery including beads, conus shells and meteorites. Atar market, Mauritania, 2005.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Bead traders at Atar market, Mauritania, 2005.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Jewellery including beads, conus shells and meteorites. Atar market, Mauritania, 2005.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Jewellery including beads, conus shells and meteorites. Atar market, Mauritania, 2005.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Ancient terracotta Bambara head carving and amber beaded necklace. Mali, 2005-2006.

Andy Trowbridge / Brown trout (Salmo trutta) with artificial gold bead nymph in corner of mouth, lying in a gin clear water in the Southern Alps, Oreti River, Te Anau, Southland, South Island, New Zealand. December, 20...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Koryak woman wearing traditional Reindeer skin boots decorated with bead work. Evensk, Magadan, Eastern Siberia, Russia, 2006.

Suzi Eszterhas / Samburu woman wearing traditional bead jewellery, Namunyak Conservancy, Northern Rangelands Trust, Kenya *No model release available - for editorial use only

Suzi Eszterhas / Samburu woman wearing traditional bead jewellery, Namunyak Conservancy, Northern Rangelands Trust, Kenya *No model release available - for editorial use only

Suzi Eszterhas / Young Samburu woman wearing traditional bead jewellery, Namunyak Conservancy, Northern Rangelands Trust, Kenya *No model release available - for editorial use only

Owen Newman / Bead jewellry of Jo / Hoan bushman, Bushmanland, Namibia. 1996

Owen Newman / Hands and bead jewellry of Jo / Hoan bushman, Bushmanland, Namibia.

Tony Heald / Profile of Samburu girls dancing with traditional bead necklaces, Laikipia, Kenya

Sharon Heald / Samburu woman with bead necklaces, Laikipia, Kenya.

Tony Heald / Samburu girl with bead hair pieces and necklaces, Laikipia, Kenya

Gerry Ellis / Detail of colorful Masai beadwork, Africa

Richard Du Toit / Samburu people wearing traditional bead headbands, Laikipia, Kenya

Jabruson / Maasai woman adorned with bead work. Rift Valley. Kenya, East-Africa

Richard Du Toit / Samburu woman wearing traditional bead necklaces, Laikipia, Kenya

Jaymi Heimbuch / Artists making beads, Kazuri Beads, Nairobi, Kenya

Andy Sands / Cuckoo bee (Nomada ruficornis) roosting with its mandibles locked onto the end of a blade of grass, covered in dew. The bead of dew that has formed on the end of the grass is reflecting the grass be...

Tim Laman / Helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil) casque and bead bracelet made of same material placed on counter, Hong Qiao Antique Market, Shanghai.

Tony Heald / Masai ankle decoration close up. Amboseli National Park, Kenya. July.

Tony Heald / Masai older woman portrait. Amboseli National Park, Kenya. July.

Yves Lanceau / Yellow Labrador Retriever in doorway with bead curtain. Property released.

Yves Lanceau / Labrador Retriever, yellow dog lying in doorway in cool of room behind bead curtain, France

Ross Hoddinott / Water droplets on leaf creating a natural pattern, Tresco Tropical Garden, Tresco, Isle of Scilly, Cornwall, UK. June.

Jeff Foott / Maasai women creating traditional bead jewellery, children watching. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. 2007.

Jeff Foott / Maasai women creating traditional bead jewellery, children watching. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. 2007.

Jeff Foott / Maasai woman creating traditional bead jewellery. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. 2007.

Jeff Foott / Maasai woman creating traditional bead jewellery. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. 2007.

Jeff Foott / Maasai women singing, wearing traditional dress with with bead jewellery. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. 2007.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Men of the Wodaabe ethnic group in makeup and traditional dress singing, dancing, parading and displaying teeth as part of Gerewol gathering of different clans. Young women choose who will be their hu...

Eric Baccega / Group of Maasai women singing and dancing in traditional dress and adorned with bead work, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Eric Baccega / Maasai women singing and dancing in traditional dress and adorned with bead work, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Eric Baccega / Group of Maasai women singing and dancing in traditional dress and adorned with bead work, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Eric Baccega / Maasai man adorned with traditional bead work and colour glass pearls around his neck, head portrait. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Eric Baccega / Maasai woman adorned with traditional bead work and colour glass perls around her neck, head portrait. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Eric Baccega / Maasai woman adorned with traditional bead work and colour glass perls around her neck, head portrait. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.