a ship's captain in the slave trade from Liverpool.These decorative glass beads were used to ease the passage of traders mainly across Africa. Similar beads are also found in the United States and ...

Maasai women from Laikipia County showcase beaded products in Nanyuki town after the county government opened a weekly Ushanga Day for women in the interior northern Laikipia to showcase the products.

Her medium is the tiny seed bead. Her canvas ranges from a 35-foot-long mobile home to the chauvinist history of Abstract ...

Glass beads were made for many millennia in Africa, but became commonly used in international trade throughout the Islamic period. The beads were a form of currency, and also prized for their beauty.

The research was based on tiny glass beads found on the lunar surface, which suggest that active volcanism was present on the Moon until relatively recently. The beads were found by Chang’e 5 ...

She was found with jet and elephant ivory bracelets, earrings, pendants, beads, a blue glass jug and a glass ... John Blanke, an African trumpeter, was one of them. His face can be seen inscribed ...

I pointed out the continent of Africa, then the country of Tanzania ... They trade honey for the nails and for colorful plastic and glass beads that the women fashion into necklaces.

When a fan walked up to Tracy Chevalier in Italy and pressed two small books into her hand, she had no idea it would send her ...

Archaeologists are revealing the long-lost secrets of the real First World War – a series of conflicts that unfolded across much of Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East some 32 ...

The same site also contained decorative materials like dress snaps and glass beads. “This was the 1920s ... there was a house for the African American folks right in this spot,” Becker ...

Sharif Bey explores big ideas through sculpture. In works like "Domestic: Queen" at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Bey ...

inspired by West African beads. People who appreciate a good punch may gravitate towards the Sobolo glass punch bowl, which has a green marble base, and the Akan-inspired Nkwanta hammered brass punch ...