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The Bead Museum Collection Highlights
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    • 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.
    • 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...
    • 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 Earrings

    • Naga Earrings

    • Naga Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Earrings

    • Two large chank shell disks with red tassles and beads at the top of each tassle. Woven multicolor beadwork connects the two disks. This earring band is a special class of earring suite connected by beadwork and worn so the chank shells go over...
    • Naga Necklace with Shell

    • Naga Necklace with Shell

    • Naga Tribe

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Necklace

    • A multi-strand necklace of mostly yellow and orange glass beads with 3 large Chank shell accent pieces and 2 sections of smaller Chank shell tube beads in horizontal rows. There are brass bell dangles all across the bottom edge and a brass coin...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Pre-Columbian Bead Strands

    • Pre-Columbian Bead Strands

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Beads

    • Outside strand: Thirty-two graduated flat rectangular shaped pieces of orange Spondylus shell strung as a necklace with a hook-and-eye closure. Found in Peru these shell beads date from 1000 ca. Inside strand: Small strand of turquoise beads...
    • Pre-Columbian Necklace

    • Pre-Columbian Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Necklace

    • Five flat rectangular shell pieces with a hole in each corner of each rectangle (4 holes per shell), all strung together with shell heishi discs at both top and bottom. The top row continues around the neck. The shell dates to the Tairona Culture...
    • Pumtek Bead

    • Pumtek Bead

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Bead

    • These two Pumtek beads show the rare monkey design. The top bead is a cylinder 42mm by 10mm, while the bottom bead is 24mm square. The original Pumtek beads were made by the Pyu People about 1000 years ago. It is the honored bead among the Chin...
    • Pumtek Necklace

    • Pumtek Necklace

    • Pyu People

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Beads

    • The left side shows beads before coloring. The right side shows beads after color enhancement. Left: Thirty-one natural fossilized palm nut beads in hexagon shapes with marble like markings. When treated (dyed), they become the more familiar...
    • Roman Period Bead

    • Roman Period Bead

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Bead

    • A glass bead from the Roman Period, 63BC - 14AD, probably made in Egypt. It features a band of mosaic glass depicting a double wave of yellow and black.
    • 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.
    • 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,...
    • Sherpa Coral Necklace

    • Sherpa Coral Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Necklace

    • A necklace of 46 red glass Czech beads made to imitate coral. It is called Sherpa Coral because it is favored by the Sherpa People of Nepal.
    • Sorcerer's Armband

    • Sorcerer's Armband

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifacts - Ceremonial Artifact - Relic

    • A hand-carved bone armband worn as dance regalia by Tibetan priests during ceremonies to drive away evil spirits. The dance outfit includes an apron and a pair of armbands. The carved plaques depict Himalayan deities and emblems important to the...
    • 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.
    • 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.

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