Glass Beads, Historic Glass Artifacts for Trade
name: label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Notes
content: Various colored glass beads. The beads range in size from the largest measuring approximately 0.9 cm long and 1.1 cm in diameter to the smallest measuring approximately 0.1 cm long and 0.2 cm in diameter. These varieties of glass beads are typically recovered during excavations of nineteenth-century archaeological sites in North America. The smallest beads would have been used for beadwork or embroidery and the larger beads were often strung for necklaces. Most of these beads would have been made in Venice, but the faceted beads were made in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and two of the largest beads appear similar to beads made in China.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Jan 2021
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO2166
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
physicalDescription: label: Material
content: Glass