Beads and beadwork of East and South Africa / Margret Carey
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- 0-85263-797-7
- IRL 746.50967 CAR
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Namibia Scientific Society Library | Not for loan |
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Beads have been used as currency and adornment since the earliest times. As Africa developed trade contacts, beads were imported from India and the east from as early as the first century A D and glass beads have been found in the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Later European traders brought beads by the shipload to buy gold, ivory and slaves. Such trade beads were made in Venice, Bohemia and Amsterdam. As beads became commoner they were used to make bead ornaments in increasing quantity and variety. The many types of beads and beadwork that occur in Africa, from the Sudan and the Horn of Africa through East Africa to South Africa and Namibia, are differentiated and described within their cultural setting in this book.
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