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The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers

 
The Bead Forum is the biannual newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers. It contains short articles on various aspects of bead research, the titles of which appear below, as well as Society news, reports on current research, listings of recent publications, conference and symposia announcements, and requests for information. Key articles from issues 1-41 are available in Vol. 21 of Beads: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers (available for purchase from the Society of Bead Researchers).
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  • Issue 69, Autumn 2016 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 69, Autumn 2016

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Circular or Half-Moon Marks on Old Beads, by Alison Kyra Carter. • Two Unusual Drawn-Glass Bead Varieties from Quebec, by Karlis Karklins, Érik Langevin, and Adelphine Bonneau. • The Earliest European Bead in North America, by Karlis Karklins. • An Introduction to the Beijing Bead Museum and Library, by Walker Chin. • Mystery Bead from the Historic Jamestown Settlement, by Karlis Karklins and Merry Outlaw.

  • Issue 68, Spring 2016 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 68, Spring 2016

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Beaded Breastplates from Scandinavia, by Alice Scherer. • Bead ID: With a Little Help From My Friends, by Karlis Karklins. • Course cum Workshop on History, Science, and Technology of Stone Beads in India, 2015, by Alok Kumar Kanungo, Mudit Trivedi, and S. Madan.

  • Issue 67, Autumn 2015 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 67, Autumn 2015

    Society of Bead Researchers

    The Bead that Gives Its Power to Priests in Dogon Country, by Tonia Marek • The Glass Bead Sequences at Mapela Hill, Zimbabwe: A Preliminary Report, by Rina Faria • Borneo International Beads Conference 2015, by Deborah Zinn • The Omphalos of Delphi, by Karlis Karklins.

  • Issue 66, Spring 2015 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 66, Spring 2015

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Imitations of Natural Objects Made for the African Trade by the French Factory Bapterosses, by Marie-José Opper and Craig Eady.

  • Issue 65, Autumn 2014 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 65, Autumn 2014

    Society of Bead Researchers

    International Conference: Baltic Amber Across Time and Borders, by Karlis Karklins.

  • Issue 64, Spring 2014 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 64, Spring 2014

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Mightier than the Sword: The Allure, Beauty, and Enduring Power of Beads, by Barbara Cade Pringle.

  • Issue 63, Autumn 2013 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 63, Autumn 2013

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Deterioration and Conservation of Unstable Glass Beads on Native American Objects, by Robin Ohern and Kelly McHugh.

  • Issue 62, Spring 2013 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 62, Spring 2013

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Seed Beads from a Shipwreck: More Than Pretty Trinkets: Part II in a series of II articles, by Lisa Hopwood.

  • Issue 61, Autumn 2012 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 61, Autumn 2012

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Bead Classification Methods: An Archaeological Case Study from a Shipwreck in Elmina, Ghana: Part I in a series of II articles, by Lisa Hopwood. • 2012 International Iroquois Beadwork Conference, by Karlis Karklins.

  • Issue 60, Spring 2012 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 60, Spring 2012

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Glass Beads from Gloucester Point, Virginia, by Laurie E. Burgess and Christopher Sperling. • Borneo International Beads Conference 2011, by Karlis Karklins.

  • Issue 59, Autumn 2011 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 59, Autumn 2011

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Munsell Color Company to Produce a Bead Color Book for the use of Bead Researchers, Archaeologists and Art Historians. • About Ostrich Eggshell Beads, by Robert G. Bednarik.

  • Issue 58, Spring 2011 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 58, Spring 2011

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Looking Back on 30 Years of the Society of Bead Researchers, by Karlis Karklins.

  • Issue 57, Autumn 2010 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 57, Autumn 2010

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Walking in Beauty: 11,000-Year-Old Beads and Ornaments from North America, by Margaret A. Jodry. • The Borneo International Bead Conference, by Jamey D. Allen. • International Iroquois Beadwork Conference, by Karlis Karklins.

  • Issue 56, Spring 2010 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 56, Spring 2010

    Society of Bead Researchers

    The Application of X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Spectrometry in the Characterization of Glass Degradation in Beaded African Art, by Maria Fusco and Robert J. Speakman.

  • Issue 55, Autumn 2009 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 55, Autumn 2009

    Society of Bead Researchers

    The Beads of St. Catherines Island, by Elliot H. Blair. • Nineteenth-Century Beaded Iroquois Flat Purses, by Dolores N. Elliott.

  • Issue 54, Spring 2009 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 54, Spring 2009

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Glass Beads from the Colonel George Davenport Trading Post and Residence, Illinois, by William T. Billeck.

  • Issue 53, Autumn 2008 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 53, Autumn 2008

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Ancient Adornments of the Kyivan Rus, X-XIII Centuries, by Maria M. Rypan.

  • Issue 52, Spring 2008 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 52, Spring 2008

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Hidden Histories Project at the Petrie Museum of Egyptology in London.

  • Issue 51, Autumn 2007 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 51, Autumn 2007

    Society of Bead Researchers

    Glass Trade Beads: An Assemblage Found on a Shipwreck off the Coast of West Africa, by Lisa Hopwood.

  • Issue 50, Spring 2007 by Society of Bead Researchers

    Issue 50, Spring 2007

    Society of Bead Researchers

 
 
 

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