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Antique Light Powder Blue Size 11 Seed Beads A 20 ABOUT 3.5 OZs

Please note the picture that compares this listing with several other current bead listings which are also blue.

Soon after Anglo contact with the Native American, glass beads manufactured in Europe principally in Moreno , Italy became standard trade items with the Indians. Lewis & Clark and virtually all traders, trappers, and mountain men carried beads for trade. Little changed in their manufacturer until the first quarter of the 1900s. By then the reservations system was well established and the markets for traditional material substantially changed. While recently old colors have reproduced, the actual colors and beads of the old days are becoming scarcer and scarcer.

In general these beads, certified to be pre 1920 beads, come from attic, basement, and trading post stocks, caches, and inventories scattered across Indian Country representing over 50 years of collecting and restoring Buffalo era material culture items. All originated in Europe, came across the Atlantic , and were intended to be sewn on all kinds of Indian items. Visit any museum or read any book on historical Native Americana and their purpose will be amply illustrated.

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