Bead

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Object Name: 
Bead
Place Made: 
West Africa
Accession Number: 
73.3.353
Dimensions: 
Overall W: 2.8 cm, D: 3.6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1800-1899
Primary Description: 
Yellow, black, red glass; Bodom type - large sphere with a yellow body and a black core with three large eye spots in a trailed red only; no central spot.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Lamb, Alastair, Former Collection
1973
Category: 
Beads
Color: 
Yellow, black, red
yellow
black

Publications (1)

Krobo Powder-Glass Beads (1976-04) illustrated, p. 33, fig. 4; p. 39, fig. 32; BIB# AI14479