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This bead card contains several different kinds of beads, some mold made. Bead 443 is a raspberry shape; Beads 449-453 are a concave-sided Hopewellian shape; Beads 459-463 are foil-wrapped square tubes; and Beads 472-73 are disks. Beads 478-474 are types used on several Native American objects in the ISM Anthropology Collection.

Collection of the Illinois State Museum
Photographed by Gary Andrashko, ISM
ISM Accession #: 1941-0083

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