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Object Name4 Bicone Beads

Made FromGlass

Date1850-1910

Place MadeGhana

TechniqueMolded powder glass

SizeOverall Diam: 2 cm, L: 3.2 cm

Accession Number73.3.336

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern
Early Modern

Exhibitions

Glass Beads of Ghana

Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead

Not On View

Physical Description4 Bicone Beads. Yellow, grey, blue, brown, red glass; Akosu type - short bicones, yellow body on a grey core with a blue equatorial band and a system of dark brown, green, red and dark brown longitudinal stripes. Also blue and red stripes.
Provenance

Former Collection H. Alastair Lamb - 1973