shell disk beads and early trade glass bead

shell disk beads and early trade glass bead

shell disk beads and early trade glass bead

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Introduction

A short string of shell disk beads and a single large early trade glass bead. Anishinaabe, Peter Jones Collection

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee Other
Materials

shell, glass, cotton fabric

Techniques or Format

25 shell disks with holes for stringing and one dark red large sylindrical glass bead with blue and white star design visible on the ends, strung on a fold piece of green cotton cloth

Current Location: National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E178384-0
GKS Reference Number: 24809
Approximate Place of Origin

45.8, -83.9

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