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Object NamePowder Glass Beads

Maker Mr. Larteh

Made FromGlass

Date1950-1972

TechniqueMolded powder glass

SizeOverall H: 10 cm, W: 10 cm;Average Bead H: 2.5 cm, Diam (max): 3 cm

Accession Number73.3.335 B

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead

Place Made

Ghana, Krobo Odumase

Physical DescriptionPowder Glass Beads. Yellow, orange, brown, white, red, and black glass; molded powder glass. 7 types of beads; 1) Cylindrical, opaque yellow body decorated with 4 opaque brown stars and 4 opaque brown dots, 1 fading opaque brown encircles either end, 1 specimen. 2) Barrel, opaque yellow body decorated with 4 opaque red straight stripes and 2 opaque green straight stripes. An opaque red stripe extends around the equator and an opaque black ring encircle either end. They all extend over the straight stripes. 1 specimen. 3) Barrel, opaque orange decorated with 4 opaque green straight stripes and 2 opaque red straight stripes. An opaque red stripe extends around the equator and an opaque black ring encircle either end. They all extend over the straight stripes. 1 specimen. 4) Barrel, opaque white core, opaque orange body decorated with 2 symmetrical patterns made of opaque red L-shaped line. A compound dot of opaque red on opaque black is situated in the middle of the pattern. 1 specimen. 5) Bicone, opaque yellow body decorated with 2 symmetrical patterns made of opaque red L-shaped line. A compound dot of opaque green on opaque black is situated in the middle of the pattern. 1 specimen. 6) Bicone, opaque yellow body decorated with one opaque brown ring in the center and 5 opaque black dots one either end. 1 specimen. 7) Bicone, opaque brown decorated with an opaque white lattice. 1 specimen. 8) Bicone, opaque brown decorated with a compound ring of opaque brown on opaque white in the center and 5 opaque white dots one either end. 1 specimen.
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