Context (Display)
Previously on display 'The Scientific Bead' 704/7
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1934.194 A-G: Card 1 of 4 reads 'Outfit for making beads. Mould, added in pencil "greyish yellow fabric 25 holes. Roughly circular"
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) donor Captain Robert.P.Wild
There is an original card and duplicates, cards 1-4 with futher details. Card 1 of 4 reads in pencil on rear , "A-B checked July 1973". Card 4 of 4 reads "A bracelet from Dunkwa (1934.1050) consists of 15 of these beads"
(Bib) These beads are very fashionable now as they simulate the much prized 'Aggrey Bead...The beads when heated have not competely fused but frittered' R.P.Wild in a letter, 15/7/1934. Card reads in pencil see letters 18/6/1934 for Reynard and 15/7/1934 from Wild. There is also a letter from the donor typed into the catalogue card telling how he watched the manufacture of the beads. This will be photocopied and placed in the archive
Event Date 4/4/2000
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Wild, R.P. 1937. 'A Method of Bead-Making Practised in the Gold Coast' in Man, Vol. 37, (Jun., 1937). Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, pp. 96-97, Figure 1 shows moulds and beads.

Event Date 6/6/2014
Author: Chris Wingfield

Description (Physical description)
Clay mould for beads. 25 cylindrical holes, each pierced at the base and with a length of stick positioned centrally to form the hole of each bead. Many of the sticks are missing.
Event Date 13/10/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe