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 | THE HISTORY OF BEADS: FROM 30,000 B.C. TO PRESENT by Lois Sherr Dubin From Library Journal: Beads have played an important role in every major civilization and have traveled widely as valuable and easily portable objects of adornment. This comprehensive and visually stimulating history focuses on the bead in its cultural context as personal decoration, currency, status symbol, magical charm, and form of cultural communication. Complementing the well-documented text are full-page color photographs of beads from museums and private collections; maps showing bead-making centers and distribution routes; and a fold-out chart of every major bead type (over 1,230) from the dawn of history to the present. Highly recom-mended for academic and large public libraries. (Janice Zlendich, California State University Library, Fullerton Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.) |
 | COLLECTIBLE BEADS: A UNIVERSAL AESTHETIC by Robert K. Liu Beautifully illustrated, Collectible Beads: A Universal Aesthetic, explores and documents the rise and development of a unique passion. The authoritative bead resource takes you on a rich and exciting journey of discovery, charting the worldwide phenomenon of ancient, contem-porary and ethnographic beads as collectibles. In celebrating the first and most universal form of personal adornment, Ornament Magazine co-editor Robert K. Liu expertly details the history of beads as a revealing and inspiring symbol of humanity's cultural and spiritual aspirations. (from www.collectiblebeads.net) |
 | AFRICAN BEADS: JEWELS OF A CONTINENT by Evelyn Simak & Carl Dreibelbis Introduction by Lois Sherr Dubin African Beads: Jewels of a Continent is the first book ever published to deal exclusively with African-made beads. In detailed chapters organized by material (bone and shell, wood and amber, stone, metal glass) authors Evelyn Simak and Carl Dreibelbis trace the historical journey of bead making in Africa. Prefaced with an essay by Lois Sherr Dubin and accompanied by 163 color photographs, this magnificent book is a showcase for some or the rarest, most beautiful beads in the world. |
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