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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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$10.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Yet he admits: "As of now, there is much more that we do not know about these beads than we do know. For example, we do not know where the beads were ... moremade.". "One explanation is that the egg shells could have been exported from Trans-Baikal or Mongolia with the beads manufactured here.
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Free Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Jewelry From Antiquity To The ... morePresent by Clare Phillips. NOTE: We have 75.000 books in our library, almost 10,000 different titles. Odds are we have other copies of this same title in varying conditions, some less expensive, some better condition. We might also have different editions as well(some paperback, some hardcover, oftentimes international editions) If you don’t see what you want, please contact us and ask. We’re happy to send you a summary of the differing conditions and prices we may have for the same title. DESCRIPTION: Softcover: 224 pages. Publisher: Thames and Hudson; 1996) Sumptuously illustrated! From the simple shell beads worn by Paleolithic hunters to the splendor of Renaissance gold work and the sumptuousness of Art Nouveau enamels. Here is a guide to the evolution of Western jewelry, concluding with the radical and experimental developments of the last three decades. Offering a survey of the entire field, the book is organized into chronological sections starting with the ancient world and progressing through the Middle Ages and the Baroque to the Belle Epoque and Art Deco eras, finally reaching the present day. The author, Clare Phillips, analyzes jewelry's changing fashions, explores its social context, and examines how it has been worn by both men and women. She shows how jewelers have responded to new sources of gems, whether emeralds from the New World or diamonds from South Africa, and to the discovery of metals such as platinum and aluminum. Masterworks by unknown craftsmen and pieces designed by individual artists such as Holbein, Pugin and Calder, are illustrated alongside the glittering products of the major jewelry houses- Cartier, Fouquet and Faberge among others. CONDITION: NEW. New oversized softcover. Unblemished. Unmarked, pristine in every respect. Pages are pristine; clean, crisp, unmarked, unmutilated, tightly bound, unambiguously unread. Satisfac
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$15.00 Shipping Location: Bonneville, France Interesting Mousterian circular scraper, made from a convergent unipolar core, itself being à big flake from another core. One side is slightly denticulate. ... moreLate Neanderthal, upper paleolithic, France (50 000 to 28 000 bc).
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