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The Bead Museum Collection Highlights
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    • "Balangandas" Necklace

    • "Balangandas" Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • A cast silver metal frame with two birds on a vine and dangles of hollow fruit, gourds and a wooden hand. This necklace is known as "balangandas" - originally a chain of amulets or charms (teeth, bells, horn, shell, etc.) worn by slaves as...
    • Straw Necklace

    • Straw Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • A whimsical contemporary woven straw necklace consisting of a central purple grape cluster pendant with green leaves flaked by various fruit on each side. The rest of the necklace is mixed woven straw beads in bright, cheerful colors.
    • Peruvian Necklace

    • Peruvian Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Three "Nueva Cadiz" necklaces. Left: Mixture of mixed glass Nueva Cadiz beads, shell tubes and glass chevrons with a spindle whorl pendant. Center: A necklace of 28 blue glass Nueva Cadiz beads with a drop pendant. The pendant consists of a...
    • 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.
    • Ethiopia Necklace

    • Ethiopia Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • A necklace of 10 silver Coptic crosses and various black and white trade beads from Ethiopia. Coptic is the Christian religion of the area.
    • Artist Bead Necklace

    • Artist Bead Necklace

    • Smircich, James

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Contempory glass bead necklace in red, white and black made in 1993. James is a founding member of the ISGB (International Society of Glass Bead Makers) and an internationally celebrated teacher of glass bead making.
    • 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...
    • Naga Amulet Necklace

    • Naga Amulet Necklace

    • Naga Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Nine metal pendants strung with 74 glass and shell beads ending with a square chank shell closure. Orange glass beads and chank shell beads form a backdrop for 9 brass and bronze amulet pendants. The amulets have raised circular designs and show...
    • Ancient Glass Mixed Bead Necklace

    • Ancient Glass Mixed Bead Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • A combination of Ancient glass beads dating from the Roman to Islamic Period, 63BC - 1400AD. Detail: The detail shows the bottom beads on the necklace strands and closeups of design motifs such as trailed lines are easy to see.
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Tortoise Shell Pendant

    • Tortoise Shell Pendant

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Pendant

    • Tortoise shell carved with a fish motif, possibly a dolphin, with 9 dangles of mollusk shell and small teeth at the end of each dangle. It is 9cm wide and 10cm long.
    • Amulet necklace

    • Amulet necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment -Necklace

    • A necklace of assorted silver amulets, coins, bracteats, beads and stones strung on twisted black cords with a larger diamond shaped silver prayer box at the center. Two of the amulets are stylized "Hands of Fatima" symbols. Amulets are thought...
    • Diviner's Pouch

    • Diviner's Pouch

    • Yoruba Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Personal Gear - Bag

    • Many strands of red glass seed beads, some whitehearts, with a woven beaded pouch at each end and coin dangles on the pouches. Coins are British West Africa one cent pieces dated 1938, 1941, 1942 and 1943. Beadwork is red and white. Whitehearts...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Fashion Accessories

    • Fashion Accessories

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Armband;earrings

    • Top: A pectoral ornament or part of a headdress. The center piece is oval with a tree-of-life motif and metal chain dangles with diamond shaped drops. Each side piece is 5 inches of metal mesh with 3 embossed octagon shaped medalions. Along the...

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