- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Brown cylindrical glass bead with a thin white line in the centre and white end. [SM 27/10/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Abéché
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1948
- Date collected
- By 1948
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 26/10/1971
- Materials and processes
- Material Bead, Material Glass, Process Perforated, Process Ground, Process Drawn, Process Moulded, Process Polished
- Dimensions
- Width: max 9 mm, Length: max 23 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1971.15.596
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