Context (CMS Context)
(bio) (female source name) Source: Beck Collection per Mrs H.J. Beck.
A label reads: 'Birdi, N Kavirondo, East Africa". B label reads: 'Kikuyu, Kenya, Erethyna, Tomatosa'. C label reads: 'Ancient glass beads from Kavirondo, Brit. E. Africa; Clark'. D label reads: 'East Africa, Sofala, A. Blue, B. yellow, C. red.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Beck's catalogue cards for these objects, transcribed in the Description field, also give sources. A-C were given to Beck by Louis Clarke and D reads 'from Cambridge, where there are a number.'
Event Date 13/9/2012
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Record for 1947.2323 A-D: 'A: 6 brown beads worn by the Bayobu women, N. Kavirondo, they call them Birali and say they come from water, where they find them on sticks & [illegible] them. Beck No 1394. B: 2 wood beads - part of a necklace made from the 'Erethyna Tomatosa'. Kikuyu, Kenya. Beck 1400. C: 2 ancient blue glass beads from Kavirondo, British East Africa. Beck 1410. D: Three glass beads: blue glass oblate bead, very much worn, maybe from Cane; yellow glass bead, connextion suggestive of Holson & York; red glass bead. From Sofala, Portuguese East Africa. Beck 1781 A-C. '
Event Date 09/12/2016
Author: maa