Article Title
First Page
3
ISSN
0843-5499
Last Page
8
Abstract
The bead research community lost a principal member when Peter Francis, Jr., director of the Center for Bead Research in Lake Placid, New York, died December 8, 2002, while on a research trip to Ghana, West Africa. Pete was widely known and respected, and was responsible for significantly increasing people's awareness—on a worldwide scale—of beads and their place in human culture through his many publications, lectures, workshops, symposia, and internet website. He leaves a void that will be very hard, if not impossible, to fill.
Publisher Information
The Society of Bead Researchers is a non-profit scientific-educational corporation founded in 1981 to foster historical, archaeological, and material cultural research on beads and beadwork of all materials and periods, and to expedite the dissemination of the resultant knowledge. Membership is open to all persons involved in the study of beads, as well as those interested in keeping abreast of current trends in bead research.
Repository Citation
Karklins, Karlis
(2002).
"In Memoriam: Peter Francis, Jr., 1945-2002."
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
14: 3-8. Available at:
https://surface.syr.edu/beads/vol14/iss1/4
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