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Museum Expedition 1941, Frank L. Babbott Fund
54 beads strung on a metal wire, with metal clasp at one end and loop on the opposite. Each bead is carved from tusk and shaped into a oblong orb. The surface of the beads has been polished to a shine. Colour varies in each bead, and is often mottled, from dark amber to light yellow. (Part b is a detached bead. Parts c-d are the old clasp: two round plastic tube-shaped pieces that screw together, and each has a hole in the end.)
Hand made stone beads, c. 1500 BC from Fraser Arms site, South Vancouver.
Nature made Puuka shell beads from the Solomon Islands. These are the broken off tops of dead, wave washed conus shells.
Machine made mother of pearl beads, c. 1800's.
String of 90 handmade beads, 81 brass and 9 copper. Each bead is barrel shaped, of similar size and shape but not identical. They are open on narrow ends. Each has a single horizontal slit where the metal was joined. The beads are strung on a piece of sinew.
The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.
SECOND REPORT ON THE ESKIMO OF BAFFIN LAND AND HUDSON BAY. FROM NOTES COLLECTED BY CAPTAIN GEORGE COMER, CAPTAIN JAMES S. MUTCH, AND REV. E.J. PECK. BOAS, FRANZ BULLETIN, 15, 1907