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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)
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
plaque
99 BCE-99 CE
Endeavor
Lino Tagliapietra
2004
Luigi Moretti
1888-1894