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BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
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The Levin Catalogue Of Mid-19th-Century Beads, Karlis Karklins
The Levin Catalogue Of Mid-19th-Century Beads, Karlis Karklins
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
The Levin Catalogue is composed of two similar collections of glass and stone beads assembled by Moses Lewin Levin, a London bead merchant whose business operated from 1830 to 1913. A total of 621 beads of 128 different varieties makes up the collections which can be dated to the period 1851-1869. Although the beads are recorded as having been used in the African trade, several have counterparts at North American sites, thereby making the catalogue a potentially valuable research tool for those involved in the study of North American trade beads as well.
Reviews And End Matter (V. 16, 2004)
Reviews And End Matter (V. 16, 2004)
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
Gem and Ornamental Materials of Organic Origin, by Maggie Campbell Pedersen (2004), reviewed by Stefany Tomalin
World on a String: Parts One, Two, and Three, by Diana Friedberg and Lionel Friedberg (2004-2005), reviewed by Lois Rose Rose
Beads of Life: Eastern and Southern African Beadwork from Canadian Collections, by Marie-Louise Labelle (2005), reviewed by Margret Carey.
Precious Red Coral: Markets And Meanings, Susan J. Torntore
Precious Red Coral: Markets And Meanings, Susan J. Torntore
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
Beads and other ornamental items made of precious red coral have been utilized by various cultures worldwide for thousands of years. Depending on its properties and market context, this highly valued material has meant different things to different peoples through time. The current industry—based in Torre del Greco in southern Italy—reflects past traditions but also incorporates new ideas into the production of beads and jewelry for the three principal world markets: fashion, ethnic, and tourist. These reflect the historic trade and use of red coral beads in several West African, European, and American cultural settings. This article describes the Torrese …
Table Of Contents (V. 16, 2004)
Table Of Contents (V. 16, 2004)
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
No abstract provided.
Incised Dentalium Shell Beads In The Plateau Culture Area, Roderick Sprague
Incised Dentalium Shell Beads In The Plateau Culture Area, Roderick Sprague
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
Whole dentalium and segments of dentalium shell have been used as beads in the Northwest Coast and interior Plateau culture areas both prehistorically and ethnographically. Incised whole shells, and no more than five known examples of incised segments, have been recovered from the Plateau, limited to archaeological contexts. A review of the reported incising clearly shows the use of design elements typical of the Plateau Culture Area as often also used on bone, antler, wood, and historic copper in addition to dentalium. The Asotin site (45-AS-9), one of the few well-dated Plateau burial sites with incised beads indicates that this …
Beads: Journal Of The Society Of Bead Researchers - Volume 16 (Complete)
Beads: Journal Of The Society Of Bead Researchers - Volume 16 (Complete)
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
No abstract provided.
Bead Making At Murano And Venice, B. Harvey Carroll Jr., Jamey D. Allen
Bead Making At Murano And Venice, B. Harvey Carroll Jr., Jamey D. Allen
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
"Bead Making at Murano and Venice," by B. Harvey Carroll, Jr., is a rare eyewitness account of beadmaking in and around Venice, Italy, towards the end of the First World War and documents the technology of the time as well as what impact the war had on the industry. Carroll's report takes us through the various steps in the production of drawn or tube beads and also provides a historical perspective of the industry. Although the report presents much useful information, we now know much more about most aspects of glass beadmaking and endnotes provide much additional information and clarification.
Bohemian Faceted-Spheroidal Mold-Pressed Glass Bead Attributes: Hypothesized Terminus Post Quem Dates For The 19th Century, Lester A. Ross
Bohemian Faceted-Spheroidal Mold-Pressed Glass Bead Attributes: Hypothesized Terminus Post Quem Dates For The 19th Century, Lester A. Ross
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
Faceted-spheroidal mold-pressed beads have been manufactured in Bohemia since the 18th century. Evolution of manufacturing technology has resulted in the creation of bead attributes that can readily be observed on beads from archaeological contexts. Many North American archaeological sites contain examples of this bead type; but few reports have identified the attributes, much less recognized these beads as mold-pressed. Enough evidence now exists to suggest that some of these attributes have temporal significance for dating archaeological bead assemblages. Terminus post quem dates for faceted-spheroidal mold-pressed bead attributes are hypothesized, and a strategy for future research is suggested so that a …
Beads In The Straits Settlements: Trade And Domestic Demand, 1827-1937, Hwei-Fe'n Cheah
Beads In The Straits Settlements: Trade And Domestic Demand, 1827-1937, Hwei-Fe'n Cheah
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
Beads have long been a part of the exchange of goods in Southeast. Indo-Pacific beads were traded in Southeast Asia and colored beads from China were exchanged for spices and forest products from the Indonesian archipelago. The Straits Settlements, comprising the ports of Singapore, Malacca, and Penang, was formed in 1826, to consolidate the trading position of the British in Southeast Asia. Singapore, in particular, developed into a major entrepot of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Research by the late Peter Francis, Jr., drew attention to its role as a channel for a part of the Southeast Asian bead …
Early Upper Paleolithic Ornaments From Üçaǧizli Cave, Turkey, Mary C. Stiner, Steven L. Kuhn
Early Upper Paleolithic Ornaments From Üçaǧizli Cave, Turkey, Mary C. Stiner, Steven L. Kuhn
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
Beads and similar ornaments appear early in the archaeological record associated with modern humans (Homo sapiens), first in Africa and somewhat later in Eurasia. They are thought to be among the first indicators of human use of symbols. This paper discusses criteria used to distinguish early mollusk-shell beads from other kinds of shells in archaeological deposits, focusing on evidence from the site of Üçaǧizli Cave in Turkey. Upper Paleolithic beadmakers at this and other sites clearly preferred certain forms of shell for ornamental purposes, although the reasons for that selectivity remain obscure.
Table Of Contents (V. 15, 2003)
Table Of Contents (V. 15, 2003)
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
No abstract provided.
Birds, Beasts, And Botanicals: Organic Beads And Pendants From The Amazon Basin, Deborah G. Harding
Birds, Beasts, And Botanicals: Organic Beads And Pendants From The Amazon Basin, Deborah G. Harding
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
The people of the Amazon Basin have an incredible array of organic materials available to them, which they use to make beads and pendants. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has extensive recent collections from the Amazon Basin, with hundreds of necklaces, belts, aprons, and ear and arm ornaments which contain beads made from organic materials. These collections are used to illustrate a variety of the beads and their materials.
Two Centuries Of Iroquois Beadwork, Dolores N. Elliott
Two Centuries Of Iroquois Beadwork, Dolores N. Elliott
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
To the 16th-century Iroquois living in what is now central New York state, European glass trade beads were something special; they were believed to have had magical and spiritual meaning. To this day, the Iroquois have a special relationship with glass beads. Iroquois artists began creating three-dimensional beaded items in the late 18th century. The first beaded pincushions and wall pockets were small, but they increased in size and quantity during the 19th century. Two centers of beadwork making arose: one around Niagara Falls in western New York and southern Ontario, and the other around Montreal in southern Quebec and …
Captions And Color Plates (V. 15, 2003)
Captions And Color Plates (V. 15, 2003)
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
No abstract provided.
Reviews And End Matter
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
Beadwork: A World Guide, by Caroline Crabtree and Pam Stallebrass (2002), reviewed by Margret Carey
A Bead Timeline. Volume I: Prehistory to 1200 CE, by James W. Lankton (2003), reviewed by Marilee Wood
Amber in Archaeology, Curt W. Beck, Ilze B. Loze, and Joan M. Todd (eds.) (2003), reviewed by Karlis Karklins.
Beads: Journal Of The Society Of Bead Researchers - Volume 15 (Complete)
Beads: Journal Of The Society Of Bead Researchers - Volume 15 (Complete)
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
No abstract provided.
Beadwork Of Hungary And Transylvania, Robin Atkins
Beadwork Of Hungary And Transylvania, Robin Atkins
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
Beading is a cultural necessity in some rural villages of Hungary and Transylvania, where peasants have used embroidery and beads to lavishly embellish their costumes for hundreds of years. Remaining little changed over several centuries and almost oblivious to beads and beadwork in the rest of the world, the peasants of these villages have slowly evolved their own style of beadwork from thread embroidery and other embellishing methods. Based on field research, this article explores the cultural traditions, rich designs, and techniques of beadwork in four Hungarian villages—three in Transylvania (Romania) and one in southern Hungary.
Table Of Contents (V. 14, 2002)
Table Of Contents (V. 14, 2002)
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
No abstract provided.
In Memoriam: Peter Francis, Jr., 1945-2002, Karlis Karklins
In Memoriam: Peter Francis, Jr., 1945-2002, Karlis Karklins
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
The bead research community lost a principal member when Peter Francis, Jr., director of the Center for Bead Research in Lake Placid, New York, died December 8, 2002, while on a research trip to Ghana, West Africa. Pete was widely known and respected, and was responsible for significantly increasing people's awareness—on a worldwide scale—of beads and their place in human culture through his many publications, lectures, workshops, symposia, and internet website. He leaves a void that will be very hard, if not impossible, to fill.
Reviews And End Matter
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
Amulets and Pendants in Ancient Maharashtra, by Jyotsna Maurya (2000), reviewed by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
South East African Beadwork, 1850-1910: From Adornment to Artefact to Art, by Michael Stevenson and Michael Graham-Stewart (2000), reviewed by Margret Carey
Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: Beads and Other Small Objects, by Maud Spaer et al. (2001), reviewed by Peter Francis, Jr.
Asia's Maritime Bead Trade: 300 B.C. to the Present, by Peter Francis, Jr. (2002), reviewed by James W. Lankton
Ethnographic Beadwork: Aspects of Manufacture, Use and Conservation, Margot M. Wright (ed.) (2001), reviewed by Alice Scherer.
Late Neolithic Amber Beads And Pendants From The Lake Lubāns Wetlands, Latvia, Ilze Biruta Loze
Late Neolithic Amber Beads And Pendants From The Lake Lubāns Wetlands, Latvia, Ilze Biruta Loze
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
In Late Neolithic Europe, amber beads and pendants were initially mainly made in the coastal zone of the Baltic Sea, due to the presence of amber washed up by the Litorina Sea. There were four principal localized zones of Neolithic amber artifacts in this region: the eastern Baltic, the mouth of the Vistula River, Jutland and Skone, and Fennoscandinavia. The British Isles are regarded as a fifth zone. As the popular-scientific literature has so far provided scant information on the amber-working zone of the eastern Baltic, this article summarizes the findings revealed by extensive archaeological research, particularly during the past …
A Brief Biography Of Giovanni Giacomuzzi: Artist And Glassmaker, Vincenzo Zanetti
A Brief Biography Of Giovanni Giacomuzzi: Artist And Glassmaker, Vincenzo Zanetti
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
Giovanni Giacomuzzi (1817-1872) was the driving force behind the celebrated 19th-century Venetian beadmaking and glassworking firm of Fratelli Giacomuzzi fu Angelo, one of whose bead sample books is described in the accompanying report. This tribute by a learned contemporary summarizes Giacomuzzi's accomplishments and sheds light on the life of a much-honored master glassworker.
Captions And Color Plates (V. 14, 2002)
Captions And Color Plates (V. 14, 2002)
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
No abstract provided.
The Giacomuzzi Bead Sample Book And Folders, Karlis Karklins
The Giacomuzzi Bead Sample Book And Folders, Karlis Karklins
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
The sample book described herein displays the wound glass beads produced during the third quarter of the 19th century by an acclaimed Venetian firm, that of the Giacomuzzi brothers. The book vividly shows what sorts of beads were being marketed by a single firm at this time, and provides much useful information concerning bead sizing systems. Although not marked with the producers name, the folders that accompany the book are of like date and at least one is likely a product of the Giacomuzzis.
Beads: Journal Of The Society Of Bead Researchers - Volume 14 (Complete)
Beads: Journal Of The Society Of Bead Researchers - Volume 14 (Complete)
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents (V. 12-13, 2000-2001)
Table Of Contents (V. 12-13, 2000-2001)
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
No abstract provided.