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The Frost Trade Bead Collection Gallery

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Foil-wrapped Beads

The beads in the third and tenth rows of the right column were among those used by Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indians of Wisconsin and the general Great Lakes area to decorate women's purses and other objects for the tourist trade.

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

Foil-wrapped Beads

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