Featured Mystery beads…

Hi, you guys! Hope Saturday is going swimmingly for you all.

I know the photo won’t be much help, but I’m trying to figure out what these beads are made of. Some clues:
- they’re heavy for their size
- when they clink against each other, they sound like heavy glass
- they have an odd texture; exceedingly smooth and buttery, like a high end leather jacket
- they’re slightly cool to the touch
- they’re all the same basic shape (I have a bunch more) but none of them are shaped perfectly - like lumpy lil footballs

Last pic has a size reference - each square on the paper is 1/4”.

The small ones really remind me of…. teeth.

Any ideas? Thanks!

 

Tagua nuts, it seems! Called vegetable ivory too

 

Sure looks like.

 

Cool! That’s something new for me, I’ll have to look them up. Thanks so much!

(also a lil glad, a lil sad that they’re not teeth)