- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Seven cornelian stone beads [.1-.7] etched with abstract designs in white. Strung together by the collector. [SM 13/10/2010]
- Long description
- Seven cornelian stone beads [.1-.7] etched with abstract designs in white. Strung together by the collector. One bead is a large sphere, five are smaller spheres and one is roughly cylindrical. They are all decorated with linear and dot designs. [SM 13/10/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1948
- Date collected
- By 1948
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 26/10/1971
- Materials and processes
- Material Bead, Material Cornelian Stone, Material Pigment, Process Strung, Process Etched, Process Decorated, Process Ground, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 18 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1971.15.553.1 Accession number: 1971.15.553.2 Accession number: 1971.15.553.3 Accession number: 1971.15.553.4 Accession number: 1971.15.553.5 Accession number: 1971.15.553.6 Accession number: 1971.15.553.7
- Associated publications
- For a colour photograph of this object, see Figure SW7 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 second page of her text. Copy of volume in Balfour Library; photocopy of Withers's paper in RDF: Researchers: Withers. [JC 28 8 2008]
1971.15.553.1
Seven cornelian stone beads [.1-.7] etched with abstract designs in white. Strung together by the collector. [SM 13/10/2010]
1971.15.553.1
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