Glass Trade Beads
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Jan 1987
label: Collection Date
content: 1975
name: label: Collector
content: Lynn Rabinowitz
label: Donor Name
content: Robert A. Elder Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: THESE ARE CONTEMPORARY MILLEFIORI GLASS BEADS, MADE IN THE OLD STYLE, BY BEAD WORKERS OF VENICE,ITALY FOR EXCHANGE PURPOSE AMONG NATIVE PEOPLES ESPECIALLY IN AFRICA. THESE BEADS WERE ACQUIRED IN 1975, FROM MRS. LYNN RABINOWITZ, BENJANE ARTS, WEST HEMPSTEAD, LONG ISLAND, WHOWAS A BIG IMPORTER OF FOREIGN TRADE BEADS, BUT DID NOT SAYWHERE THESE CAME FROM. "PROBABLY FROM AFRICA" - BY CURATORDR. MARY JO ARNOLDI.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 13
place: label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 356735
label: USNM Number
content: E423153-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bead
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Unknown - Object
content: 3.7 cm