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  2. Trade beads - Wikipedia

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    Trade beads from ca. 1740, found in a Wichita village site in present-day Oklahoma Nineteenth-century European trade beads found in Alaska Chugach woven spruce-root hat. Trade beads are beads that were used as a medium of barter within and amongst communities. They are considered to be one of the earliest forms of trade between members of the ...

  3. Chief's Beads - Wikipedia

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    An example of a Chief's bead. The Chief's bead, named "ti-a, co-mo-shack" by North American Natives, are blue glass trade beads used during the late 18th century and early 19th century up and down the West coast of North America and the Columbia River Basin.

  4. Wampum - Wikipedia

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    Wampum beads are typically tubular in shape, often a quarter of an inch long and an eighth of an inch wide. One 17th-century Seneca wampum belt featured beads almost 2.5 inches (65 mm) long. [1] Women artisans traditionally made wampum beads by rounding small pieces of whelk shells, then piercing them with a hole before stringing them.

  5. Lasley Vore Site - Wikipedia

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    French-style trade goods from the 18th century found here included trade beads, axe heads, metal knives, and gun parts. [2] In his 2002 book, Odell explains that the gun parts were the only artifacts from the Lasley Vore site that could be positively identified as coming from a specific country (France) at a specific time (early 18th century).

  6. Native American jewelry - Wikipedia

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    Venetian glass seed beads were introduced in great numbers by Russian traders in the late 18th century, as part of the fur trade. Red and amber were the most popular colors, followed by blue. Historical Chinese coins with defenestrated section were strung as beads. [28]

  7. Bead - Wikipedia

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    A selection of glass beads Merovingian bead Trade beads, 18th century Trade beads, 18th century. A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under 1 ...

  8. Great Plains First Nations trading networks - Wikipedia

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    The musket, also distributed through the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara villages, gave its owners military superiority easily converted into control of natural resources and trade routes. During the 18th century, First Nations with trade guns displaced First Nations without firearms in a process that radically changed the ethnography of the Great ...

  9. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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    Russian earring; 19th century; silver, enamel and red glass beads; overall: 6.4 by 2.6 centimetres (2.5 in × 1.0 in); Cleveland Museum of Art . Starting in the late 18th century, Romanticism had a profound impact on the development of western jewellery.

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