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The Frost Trade Bead Collection Gallery

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Detail of Lamp-wound Beads

These larger beads are decorated with metal foil and threads and dots of colored glass. Threads of glass were heated with a lamp or torch and then wrapped in patterns on the surface of the inner bead.

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

Detail of Lamp-wound Beads

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