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$11.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish The History Of Beads From 30.000 ... moreBC To The Present by Lois Sherr Dubin. DESCRIPTION: Hardcover: 364 pages. Publisher: Harry N. Abrams. Inc. 1987) Beads have been used throughout the ages and in virtually every culture. Not simply as adornment but to express social circumstances, political occurrences, and religious beliefs; as a form of currency; or as symbolic embodiments of curative powers. And they're colorful, made of various interesting materials, and can be combined in endless configurations. With more than 100 crisp color photos and intelligently written text that reaps the benefits of the author's 30 years of research, The History of Beads documents bead styles and uses in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East. Ranging from prehistoric times to the 20th century, this book stops along the way to consider the magic eye bead, prayer beads, and beads with other special attributes. An eight-page color gatefold section offers a fascinating timeline of the bead's history at a glance. Bead devotees can satisfy their curiosity about their medium of choice and draw inspiration for their own creations from the beautiful photos of necklaces, collars, bags, headdresses, and other beaded ornaments. CONDITION: Unsold stock from bookstore. Unread. But not entirely unblemished. Pages are pristine; clean, crisp, unmarked, unmutilated, tightly bound, unread, though based on appearances, it seems relatively certain that the book was flipped through a few times by"lookie-loo" bookstore browsers while on the book store shelf. Dustjacket has no tears, cuts, or other blemishes, it simply evidences extremely mild shelfwear. Covers however evidence mild mild bumping to the books corners consequence of being clumsily shelved and bumped against bookshelf edges. Large, heavy books like this tend to get dragged across and bumped into book shelves as they are shelved and re-shelved, so
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