Accession No
1947.1764
Description
Corroded cane glass eye beads with blue cores.
Place
Africa; North East Africa; [Somaliland]; ?Somalia; ?Ethiopia
Period
Source
Beck, Horace J. (Mrs) [donor]; Beck, Horace J. [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.1764; 2595 [Beck Coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Glass
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Beck writes on his catalogue card that these beads come from the same sites as objects 2596 (1947.1763), 2597 and 2598 (1947.1750).
Event Date
Author: Bryony Smerdon
Context (Field collection)
The Beck catalogue card lists the beads as coming 'from sites of ruined Arab towns in the vicinity of the British Somaliland. Ethiopian boundary 120 miles south of Zeila'. An exact provenance for these objects is therefore uncertain and the general regions of modern Somalia and Ethiopia have been added to the Place field.
Event Date
Author: Bryony Smerdon
Description (Physical description)
Beck catalogue card: 'Very corroded beads. Glass. Cane eyes. Blue cores'.
Event Date
Author: Bryony Smerdon
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Glass beads'.
Event Date 1947
Author: Bryony Smerdon
FM:280023
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