Plate IIB - Beads As Chronological Indicators in West African Archaeology: A Reexamination

Elmina: Diagnostic glass beads: R.1-2; R.3, #1,2: 19th-century wound beads. R.3, #3-8: 19th-century mandrel-pressed beads. R.4, #1,2: 19th-century moulded beads. R.4, #3-7: pre-19th-century bead varieties. R.5: imported beads and glass shards modified locally. R.6, #1-4: beads manufactured from glass chips. R.6, #5-7; R.7, #1,2: powdered-glass beads with glass-chip and trailed-glass decoration. R.7, #3,4: 19th-century non-European wound beads. R.7, #5-8: 20th-century powdered-glass beads. Photo by R. Chan and K. Karklins.https://surface.syr.edu/beads-gallery_vol1/1005/thumbnail.jp