You know how every now and then beads combine in some manner that just tickles your socks off?
Generally for reasons unaccountable to anyone else, in my experience ["Um, why yes... uh.... it's very nice. Yes. Really."]

So I took apart a long strand of cornalines, and then on a whim combined some of them with those old traded-for-gold ochre disks, and just love the result. I'll get over it eventually.

In the meantime, what about those two giant red wound beads in the center? They don't seem to have any sort of white or red core, just solid old copper-red glass all the way down. Anyone met them before, have any tale to tell?

The striped guy in the center has some oddness about it as well - the hole on one end has rounded edges and looks as if it were poked downward, the stripes descending into it like one of those drawings of gravity wells. Possibly a remelted bead?