The History of Beads
Author(s): Lois Sherr Dubin
With hundreds of crisp colour photos and intelligently written text that reaps the benefits of the author's thirty years of research, "The History of Beads" documents bead styles and uses in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East. Ranging from prehistoric times to the 20th century, this book stops along the way to consider the magic eye bead, prayer beads and beads with other special attributes. A magnificent eight-page colour gatefold section offers a fascinating timeline of the bead's history at a glance.
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Foreword; Introduction; The Beginnings; Antiquity; Europe; Prayer; Beads; The World of Islam; The Age of European Expansion; Africa The Far East; India; Central Asia; Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Middle and South America; North America; The Special Beads: Amber and Pearls; The Magical Eye Bead; The Twentieth Century; Bead Chart.
General Fields
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- : thames
- : thames
- : 1.68
- : 298mm X 226mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lois Sherr Dubin
- : Paperback
- : 391.709
- : 364
- : 356 illustrations, 254 in colour