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  2. Trade beads - Wikipedia

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    The beads were integrated in Native American jewelry using various beadwork techniques. Trade beads were also used by early Europeans to purchase African resources, [2] including slaves in the African slave trade. Aggry beads are a particular type of decorated glass bead from Ghana. The practice continued until the early twentieth century.

  3. Ostrich eggshell beads - Wikipedia

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    In southern Africa, historical ethnographic data all point to the use of iron tools for perforating the ostrich eggshell beads. [10] Collins et al. argue that there were heat alterations to the ostrich eggshell beads found at a site called Grassridge Rockshelter in South Africa. [1] This site showed significant signs of bead manufacture.

  4. Powder glass beads - Wikipedia

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    Krobo powder glass beads, bicones. Powder glass beads are a type of necklace ornamentation. The earliest such beads were discovered during archaeological excavations at Mapungubwe in South Africa, and dated to between 970-1000 CE. Manufacturing of the powder glass beads is now concentrated in West Africa, particularly in the Ghana area.

  5. Dabls African Bead Museum not closing despite demolition of ...

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    The Dabls Bead Museum draws thousands of annual visitors from around the world to see and purchase vintage African trade beads that number as old as 300 to 400 years. For more information, visit ...

  6. African textiles - Wikipedia

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    This African textile is used to weave the Ghanaian Smock. Queens, princesses and women of Dagbon wear the Chinchini. The weaving of the chinchini is done by the 'Kpaluu', one of the traditional professional in the Dagbon society that has existed until today. The smock made from the Chinchini of Dagbon is the most worn traditional cloth of Ghana.

  7. Shweshwe - Wikipedia

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    Sotho woman wearing a brown shweshwe dress. Shweshwe (/ ˈ ʃ w ɛ ʃ w ɛ /) [1] is a printed dyed cotton fabric widely used for traditional Southern African clothing. [2] [3] Originally dyed indigo, the fabric is manufactured in a variety of colours and printing designs characterised by intricate geometric patterns.

  8. Tamlin Blake - Wikipedia

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    The main body of Blake's beaded art works took the form of South African stamps finely woven using glass seed beads. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] “By replicating these original stamps in a traditional craft idiom that has such a strong association with indigenous African cultures , Blake offers a genteel but acerbic reference to [South Africa’s] troubled ...

  9. Glass in sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia

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    It is generally agreed that glass beads were present in Sub-Saharan Africa by at least 300 AD, some having been imported from the Middle East and South East Asian regions. [1] Transported by sea, shipments arrived to coastal ports such as Mtwapa and Ungwana in Kenya and were then distributed inland via local trade networks and kinship relations ...

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