The Frost Trade Bead Collection Gallery
Larger Beads
Trailed Feather and Eye Beads
The left column contains rounded flat beads with combed or feathered millefiori designs on them. Below these are fluted round and egg-shaped beads (both columns). The beads on the upper right are glass imitations of Tibetan Dzi beads, a type of eye bead believed to have spiritual properties. These glass reproduction beads were among the types that Stephen A. Frost & Son exported to Africa, where they were popular with the Berber and Hassidic Numidian tribes.Collection of the Illinois State Museum
Photographed by Gary Andrashko, ISM
ISM Accession #: 1941-0083
