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    • The Pottery Necklace

    • The Pottery Necklace

    • Acoma Pueblo

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Seventeen hand-formed and painted oval clay beads used to form a necklace along with 43 juniper berry beads. The clay beads have a white background with geometric designs painted in shades of rust, brown and black. Oval beads are 26mm long and...
    • Face Bead

    • Face Bead

    • Allen, Jamey

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Bead

    • A large polymer clay bead (40mm X 31mm) showing 5 rows of male and female faces based on ancient samples found in Syrian and Egyptian cultures. The center row of faces is largest and shows the most detail.
    • Beaded Bag

    • Beaded Bag

    • American Indian

    • Personal Artifact - Personal Gear - Bag

    • Beaded bag with a feather motif on black fabric with scarlet ribbon edging. Bags like this were very popular from the late 1880's to 1920's as tourist souveniers from the Niagara Falls area. They were made by American Indians many from the tribes...
    • Shell Animal Bead

    • Shell Animal Bead

    • Ancient artist Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Bead

    • An ancient animal shaped bead believed to be a stylized lion handcarved from shell found in Afghanistan. When viewed from the front this lion has a charming smile.
    • Glass Sherds

    • Glass Sherds

    • Ancient Egypt

    • Unclassifiable Artifact - Artifact Remnant - Sherd

    • A variety of glass sherds from ancient Egypt during the Roman period dating from 63BC to 14AD. Glassmaking occurred as early as 2340 BC in Mesopotamia. These are fragments of vessels made in the millefiori technique that was devised to imitate the...
    • Phoenician Head Pendant

    • Phoenician Head Pendant

    • Ancient, unknown artist

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Bead

    • A Phoenician glass head pendant. The Phoenicians represented a federation of maritime traders rather than a defined country from about 1500 BC to 300 BC. Most head pendants are bearded and, therefore, male. This type is always unbearded and may...
    • Metal Necklace

    • Metal Necklace

    • Dan Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • A necklace made up of 30 brass decorated teeth and old Venetian glass millefiori beads. The long brass pieces represent leopard teeth and the short brass teeth represent crocodile teeth.
    • Hoof Necklace

    • Hoof Necklace

    • Fox Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Nineteenth Century hoof and glass bead necklace obtained from the Fox Tribe of Toma, Iowa. The beads date from the 1890's while the dyed carved hooves are thought to be from the 1870's. Beads are 3.5mm diameter and the hooves are 5mm thick and...
    • Glass Rods

    • Glass Rods

    • Heron Glass

    • Personal Artifact - Personal Gear - Cane

    • Canes and cane slices from glass rods used to make beads. These canes were made by Mary Mullany and Ralph Mossman of Heron Glass in early 1994. The flower-like motifs shown in the slices are called "millefiori" which is Italian for 1000 flowers.
    • Artist Beads

    • Artist Beads

    • Holland, Sage

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Bead

    • An assemblage of contemporary glass beads by Sage Holland made in 1993. The top left bead and center bead are "eye beads". The evil eye is a belief that apparently developed around the Mediterranean area in Neolithic times. It holds that a...
    • Armband

    • Armband

    • Ifugao Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Armband

    • A man's armband made of multiple rows of glass seed beads and glass tubular trade beads. Worn by the Ifugao Tribe of the Philippine Islands.
    • Head Ornament

    • Head Ornament

    • Ifugao Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Personal Gear - Hat

    • A small round fiber hat with a pair of Mother-of-Pearl drop earrings attached. This hat is worn by bachelors and sits to the back of the head, tying under the chin. Married men wear a hat with no decoration.
    • Belt

    • Belt

    • Jivaro Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Personal Gear - Belt

    • Red, yellow, blue and white striped cloth with fringes of fiber with red and black beads, Job's Tears, large pieces of shell and brown buckeye seed pods. The red and black seeds are poisonous. From catalog "Seashells: The First Ornament:" TBM...
    • Shell Earrings

    • Shell Earrings

    • Kalinga Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Earrings

    • Highly stylized butterfly-shaped mother-of-pearl shell earrings. These glass seed bead and shell earrings are worn by brides of the Kalinga Tribe. They are 92 mm long. The shape is very popular among the Kalinga people of Luzon Island,...
    • Mosaic Artist Beads

    • Mosaic Artist Beads

    • Kerkvliet, Brian

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Beads

    • Brian is famous for his mosaic face beads as seen in the center bead. He has been working with glass since 1977.
    • Kond Necklace

    • Kond Necklace

    • Kond Tribe

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Necklace

    • A multi-strand necklace of red "whitehearts" alternating with sections of white glass beads. Each section is divided by 2 large brass bicone beads. Necklace is 42 in. long and 2 in. thick. "Whitehearts" are red glass beads with a white glass...
    • Kond Brass Necklace

    • Kond Brass Necklace

    • Kond Tribe

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Necklace

    • It is a collection of antique brass round elements on string.
    • Blue Bead Necklace

    • Blue Bead Necklace

    • Konyak Tribe

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Necklace

    • Ninety-five (95) blue glass beads with a brass head pendant. The head has metal loop dangle earrings. Only a warrior who had taken a head was supposed to wear pendants like this. The Konyak and other Naga tribes were once headhunters. This...
    • Konyak Necklace

    • Konyak Necklace

    • Naga Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • This is a multi-strand necklace of small glass seed beads in red, orange, and navy blue. Strands meet at knotted fiber on each side and 2 Indian coins are used as the closure. This necklace was worn by Konyak people, one of the many Naga tribes. ...
    • Naga Ao Necklace

    • Naga Ao Necklace

    • Naga Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • A Naga tribal necklace made of light blue wound glass beads, 2 large cylindrical pieces of white chank shell, black and white spotted glass beads and carnelian ovals alternating with long-stemed brass bells. Square chank shell pieces used for...

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