Accession No
TEMP.00063
Description
Six cards of mounted trade beads, sewn together onto a cardboard sheet. 48 beads total, including tubular, ring and biconcial millefiori beads and oval striped beads.
Place
Africa
Period
Modern
Source
?Beck, Horace
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
TEMP.00063; 17309; 17310; 17311; 17312; 17313; 17314; 17315; 17316; 17317; 17318; 17319; 17320; 17321; 17322; 17323; 17324; 17325; 17326; 17327; 17328; 17329; 17330; 17331; 17332; 17441; 17442; 17443; 17444; 17445; 17446; 17447; 17448; 17491; 17492; 17493; 17494; 17495; 17496; 17497; 17498; 17499; 17500; 17501; 17502; 17503; 17504; 17505; 17506; K.313; K.316; K.322; K.329; K.174; K.172; K.168; K.98; K.99; K.103; K.105; K.107; K.244; K.401; K.36; C.9; C.29; C.36; H.33; B.152; B.156; H.122; K.310; A.128; A.112; A.149; B.149; B.135; B.136; K.208; K.240; K.116; A.98; K.195; K.146; A.50; K.181; K.188; K.170; K.337; K.379; K.65; K.66; K.109; K.58; K.59; K.60
Cultural Affliation
Material
Bead; Glass
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
Mounted trade beads such as these were collected by Horace Beck and it may be that these were from his collection that were donated to MAA in 1947. However, none of the numbers written on the card are listed in Beck's catalogue cards, so it may be that the beads came to the museum from another source or that Beck received these beads from another collector and never assigned them his own numbering system. For the time being, therefore, the source is tentatively given as Beck.
Event Date 28/1/2015
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Six cards of mounted trade beads, sewn together onto a cardboard sheet. Each card holds eight beads, sewn into an area demarcated by red lines, with handwritten information to the right. 48 beads total: 41 tubular millefiori beads, 1 ring millefiori bead, 4 biconical millefiori beads and 2 oval striped beads.
Event Date 28/1/2015
Author: maa
FM:267965
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