- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Trade bead specimen card, illustrating rosetta and pipe beads.
- Long description
- Specimen card issued by La Società Veneziana per l'Industria delle Conterie, card D., Edition 1909. Stamped 'RIP. TO ORIENTE'. Black cotton covered folder, much stained, containing 3 specimen cards of glass beads. Card III illustrating rosetta beads and the ranges of sizes and colours of pipe beads and other types of bead.
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Maker La Società Veneziana per l'Industria delle Conterie
- Field collector Anthony John Arkell
- PRM source Anthony John Arkell
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1909
- Date collected
- By 1948
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 26/10/1971
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Cardboard Paper Plant, Material Bead, Material Glass, Process Woven
- Dimensions
- Width 495 mm, Length 250 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1971.15.164.4
- Associated publications
- Published as a PRM postcard, April 2002. [JC 5 7 2002] [Postcard created from two pages of beads; 1971.15.164.3 and the title from 1971.15.164.4 [MJD 13/04/2012]]. For a colour photograph of all four parts of this object (i.e. 1971.15.164.1 - .4), see Figure SW10 in 'The Studies of A. J. Arkell on the Movement of Beads in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the 1930s', by Sara Withers, in International Bead & Beadwork Conference, 22-25 November 2007, Istanbul, edited by Jamey D. Allen and Valerie Hector, (no place [Istanbul]: Kadir Has University, no date [2007]), unpaginated. See also Withers's notes on this image on the third page of her text. Copy of volume in Balfour Library; photocopy of Withers's paper in RDF: Researchers: Withers. [JC 28 8 2008] All four parts of this object (i.e. 1971.15.164.1 - .4) illustrated in black and white as Figure 1.1 on page 2 of 'Gender in the Making, Trading and Uses of beads: An Introductory Essay', by Lidia D. Sciama, in Lidia D. Sciama and Joanne B. Eicher (eds), Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture and Meaning (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women, Vol. 19), Oxford: Berg (1998), pp. 1–44. Caption (same page): 'Figure 1.1 A sample card from the Sociéta Veneziana per l'industria delle Conterie (Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum).' [JC 12 8 2015]
1971.15.164.4
Trade bead specimen card, illustrating rosetta and pipe beads.
1971.15.164.4
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