Seventy Beads

Seventy Beads

Public Domain

CultureUnknown culture
Titles
  • Seventy Beads
Date1000 BC–1600 AD
MediumAmber
DimensionsEach approx. 1/8 × 1/8 in. (0.3 × 0.3 × 0.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2004.2513.1-.70
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, by 2004; given to MFAH, 2004.

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1000 BC–1600 AD
Amber
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front of object
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front of object
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1100–1450 AD
Gold
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front of object
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700–1550 AD
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100–800 AD
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100–800 AD
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front of object (mounted to Plexiglas mount)
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1–800 AD
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800–1450 AD
Gold
2010.484
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Necklace Assembly with Spherical and Cylindrical Beads
1000 BC–1600 AD
Sodalite and gold
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Group of Twelve Double Beads of Wire Cylinders
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100–800 AD
Gold
2002.4253