ADLAY FOR ORNAMENTS 



Figure 12. Notice the elaborate collar and pendant the man is wearing. The beads in it 

 are made from hard-shelled grains of adlay. The fact that some of the hard-shelled varieties of 

 this species are so well adapted for making beads has resulted in their being widely distributed 

 throughout the tropics, and some temperate countries as well. The hard-shelled beadlike torms 

 have been known to Europeans at least since the time of Pliny, but it is not until the seventeenth 

 certury that European writers make any reference to the soft-shelled kinds, although these have 

 been grown in India and China since very ancient times. 



