- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Yellow glass bead, of a thick circular shape perforated in the middle. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 29/6/2005]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1895
- Date collected
- By 1895
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 10/03/1982
- Materials and processes
- Material Glass, Material Bead, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 22 mm, Width: max 10 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1982.3.9
- Research and responses
William Fitzherbert Ruxton Commander on HMS Pandora in West Africa 1863-5 when this object was probably collected [AP 14/02/2014]
Search terms: Bead
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