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Ceramics and Glass Beads as Symbolic Mixed Media in Colonial Native North America
Get PDFDuring the 17th and 18th centuries, Native Americans rarely adorned ceramic objects with glass beads, despite the millions of beads introduced by Europeans through trade. Bead-decorated ceramics have been reported from only nine sites in North America, perhaps due to a tendency for archaeologists to overlook or misclassify bead-inlaid pottery. The 40 artifacts represent widely divergent ethnic groups separated from each other culturally, as well as by great distances in space and time. Yet they display a remarkable consistency in the pattern of bead arrangement and use of color. Colored glass beads stand in for human eyes in effigy smoking pipes and white beads encircle the mouths of pottery vessels. Rather than examples of idiosyncratic coincidence, crafters of these objects communicated broadly shared ideological metaphors. These rare artifacts speak to the interconnectedness of ancient Native Americans and to related worldviews developed over centuries of intercommunication involving mutually intelligible symbolic metaphors
Perlern: Archaologie, Techniken, Analysen, by Uta von Freeden and Alfried Wieczorek (eds.) (1997)
No full textSome Notes on the Words for Bead
Get PDFSome Notes on the Words for Bead, by Peter Francis, Jr. (1997, 30:11-13
A Possible Prosser T-hole Bead from Japan
Get PDFA Possible Prosser T-Hole Bead From Japan, By Roderick Sprague (1986, 8:10-11
Review of Militarized Masculinity in Spain and Chile. Remembering Violence through Film and Literature: Lisa DiGiovanni, University of Toronto Press, 2025, 283 pp.
No full textSupporting Student Success: Textbook Access Initiatives at the Hannon Library
Get PDFIt is no secret that the costs of getting a college education are steadily increasing. At the Southern Oregon University (SOU) Hannon Library, we are seeing the way our students struggle increasingly to afford tuition in addition to rent, food, and other necessities, and the high cost of textbooks and other course materials is only exacerbating this problem for certain student demographics. Although a large portion of our students come from the immediate region, we have students attending from throughout Oregon, and many more that come from California and other western states. We serve many first-generation students as well as nontraditional students. It is common for our students to work multiple jobs to be able to afford their education, and many report that they are unable to meet college expenses with their expected resources. Understanding the ways that textbook affordability has become a real barrier to success for so many SOU students, we wanted to do our part to reduce the cost of course materials for students by focusing on providing access to currently required texts in print or digital forms and by promoting the use of open educational resources across campus
The Beads of Tenth- to Twelfth-Century Hungary
Get PDFAn examination of the beads recovered from three Hungarian cemeteries in use during the 10th-12th centuries resulted in the identification of 61 distinct bead types. Seven of these were found to be significant on the basis of frequency analysis, and represent the beads most used by the local population. The study is enhanced by comparative material from a number of other contemporary archaeological sites in and around the country. The classification system developed for this study is applicable to other geographical areas and time periods, and may be expanded or otherwise modified to suit the needs of other researchers
Glasperlen Christbaumschmuck/Glass Bead Christmas Tree Ornaments, by Waltraud Neuwirth (1995)
No full textAncient Egyptian Sulfur Beads
Get PDFThe Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection at Tokai University (AENET), Japan, contains two unique necklaces made of an opaque yellow substance identified as sulfur through XRF and XRD analysis. Sulfur beads are rare and have not been adequately studied. We therefore undertook a study of the AENET beads and estimate that they date to the Ptolemaic and early Roman periods in Egypt. A digital-image comparison between the AENET beads and similar beads in another museum collection shows a strong correlation, suggesting that they share a single mold. An isotopic analysis also provides a specific fingerprint of the sulfur. Experiments to replicate the beads indicated that they were made by pouring molten sulfur into a greased mold. The process is simple, revealing that a small-scale cottage industry was sufficient to make them. The beads were used for funerary purposes (likely incorporated into broad collars) rather than in daily life because oxidized sulfur emits an unpleasant odor, discouraging people from wearing them every day