First Page
53
ISSN
0843-5499
Last Page
64
Abstract
The people of the Amazon Basin have an incredible array of organic materials available to them, which they use to make beads and pendants. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has extensive recent collections from the Amazon Basin, with hundreds of necklaces, belts, aprons, and ear and arm ornaments which contain beads made from organic materials. These collections are used to illustrate a variety of the beads and their materials.
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
Harding, Deborah G.
(2003).
"Birds, Beasts, and Botanicals: Organic Beads and Pendants from the Amazon Basin."
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
15: 53-64. Available at:
https://surface.syr.edu/beads/vol15/iss1/7
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