40 Beads

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Object Name: 
40 Beads
Place Made: 
Africa, Ghana
Accession Number: 
73.3.335
Dimensions: 
See Individual Records
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1900-1973
Primary Description: 
Yellow, dark brown, white glass. (A) Twenty beads - Bodom type - the larger beads have a dark core and a yellow outer coat as in the Bodom. This string also contains thirteen disc beads; (B) eight beads - six have yellow outer coat on core of various colors; two are dark brown with white decoration; (C) twelve beads - these beads have in section four lobes and they were made in vertical molds as seen in 73.3.420; yellow body.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Lamb, Alastair, Source
1973
Category: 
Beads
Color: 
Yellow, dark brown, white
yellow
dark brown

Publications (2)

The History of Beads: from 30,000 B.C. to the present (1998) illustrated, p. 50; BIB# 69265
Krobo Powder-Glass Beads (1976-04) illustrated, p. 37, fig. 22; BIB# AI14479

Objects in Set (3)

20 Bodom Beads
Date:1900-1973
Accession Number:73.3.335 A
8 Modern Bodom Beads
Artist:Mr. Larteh
Date:1900-1973
Accession Number:73.3.335 B
 
12 Beads
Artist:Mr. Larteh
Date:1950-1973
Accession Number:73.3.335 C