Accession No
TEMP.00064
Description
Six cards of mounted trade beads, sewn together onto a cardboard sheet. Five of the cards hold eight beads, sewn into an area demarcated by red lines, with handwritten information to the right, whilst the sixth holds 5 beads as above. All 45 beads are tubular millefiori beads.
Place
Africa
Period
Source
?Beck, Horace
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
TEMP.00064; 17214; 17215; 17216; 17217; 17218; 17226; 17227; 17228; 17229; 17230; 17231; 17232; 17233; 17234; 17235; 17236; 17237; 17240; 17238; 17239; 17040; 17241; 17242; 17243; 17244; 17245; 17246; 17247; 17248; 17253; 17254; 17255; 17256; 17257; 17258; 17259; 17260; 17277; 17278; 17279; 17280; 17281; 17282; 17283; 17284; K.395; K.368; K.331; K.389; K.291; A.1; A.6; A.4; A.7; A.8; A.10; A.19; A.28; A.32; A.33; A.34; A.35; A.110; A.45; A.51; A.53; A.65; A.68; A.67; A.85; A.91; A.97; A.106; A.111; B.125; B.137; B.138; B.139; B.140; B.141; B.142; B.146; B.120; C.14; C.15; H.37; H.39; A.145; B.159; K.31
Cultural Affliation
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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. Five of the cards hold eight beads, sewn into an area demarcated by red lines, with handwritten information to the right, whilst the sixth holds 5 beads as above. All 45 beads are tubular millefiori beads.
Event Date 28/1/2015
Author: maa
FM:267966
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