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The history of beads : from 100,000 B.C. to the present / Lois Sherr Dubin ; original photography by Kiyoshi Togashi.
Penn Museum Library GT2250 .D83 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubin, Lois Sherr.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beads--History.
- Beads.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 396 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abrams, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction: why a book on beads
- The beginnings
- Antiquity: from Neolithic times to the Roman Empire
- Europe: the late Roman Empire to the Renaissance
- Prayer beads
- The world is Islam
- The Age of European expansion
- Africa
- The Far East: China, Korea, and Japan
- 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
- Contemporary: Europe and North America
- Bead shape table
- The timeline of bead history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810951747
- 0810951746
- OCLC:
- 316772621
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