Antique Dogon bead strap! * Blue beads... Antique Dogon beads * Brown beads... Wood beads Size comparison with a 500-yen coin in the third photo. What are Dogon beads? Trade beads passed down from the Dogon people of Mali, West Africa. These blue marble beads were made in the Netherlands or Germany around the 1800s and are estimated to have been traded to the Dogon people.