African trade beads : their 10,000-year history /
"This beautiful book documents early-style beads made of cowrie shells, semi-precious stones and clay, and then shows in splendid detail hundreds of beads made of glass and other human-made materials that have been made by Europeans and Africans and traded for the last 600 years in Central and...
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Buffalo, New York ; Richmond Hill, Ontario :
Firefly Books,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- The history of beads and their African counterparts
- Natural material beads. Shells, bones, tusks ; Coral ; Earth ; Fara-Konon ; Amber
- Beads and occasions: weddings and social events
- Trade beads (1): trade with the Islamic world
- Ancient city of DjennE
- Trade beads (2): trade with Europe. Venetian glass beads ; Dutch trade beads ; Czech beads ; Beads made in Germany and other countries
- The unique worldview of the Dogon people
- Amber and synthetic amber
- Beads and everyday life: in search of beads in everyday life
- African beads in modern times
- Sites of major ethnic groups
- Major bead shapes
- Glossary.