First Page
61
ISSN
0843-5499
Last Page
72
Abstract
The site of a provisioning station operated by the Dutch East India Company near the Cape of Good Hope during the late 17th and early 18th centuries produced a variety of European beads of several materials. A "typical" Dutch bead assemblage of the period, it is significant because it comes from one of very few independently dated bead-producing sites in southern Africa and, as such, will be instrumental in the formulation of a chronology for the beads found in this part of Africa.
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 and Schrire, Carmel
(1991).
"The Beads from Oudespost I, A Dutch East India Company Outpost, Cape, South Africa."
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
3: 61-72. Available at:
https://surface.syr.edu/beads/vol3/iss1/6
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