- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Two tapering glass barrel beads [.1-.2] white in the centre with brown ends. Strung together by the collector. [SM 03/11/2010]
- Long description
- Two tapering glass barrel beads [.1-.2] white in the centre with black ends. Strung together by the collector. The beads are predominantly white, with a small band of opaque glass to one side. Both ends are brown, but one end is a lighter shade than the other on both beads. [SM 03/11/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Northern Darfur El Fasher [Jablonec nad Nisou]
- Cultural groups
- Czech
- 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 Strung, Process Ground, Process Drawn
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 5 mm, Diameter: max 5 mm, Length: max 24 mm, Length: max 22 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1971.15.599.1 Accession number: 1971.15.599.2
- Research and responses
This bead type may be related to the earlier term, psomit, used by Arab and European traders in mid 19th century Sudan (P. Santi & R. Hill 1980, The Europeans in the Sudan 1834-1878, p. 123). Judging by their descriptions, somit appear to be banded beads, many of which are cylindrical or barrel-shaped; imitation somit were also produced in glass in Germany and Czechoslovakia [SM 03/11/2010]
1971.15.599.1
Two tapering glass barrel beads [.1-.2] white in the centre with brown ends. Strung together by the collector. [SM 03/11/2010]
1971.15.599.1
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