Ancient Native American Indian Artifacts, Relics and Arrowheads

Trade Beads Page

This page contains mostly "bead" items which fall into 5 different categories

1) Trade beads, glass beads manufactured in various European countries

and used for trade between the Europeans and the Native Americans,

mostly from the 18th through 19th centuries

2) Shell beads, used by the Native Americans as adornment and/or

inter-tribal bartering. These come in two different forms

A) Whole shells often strung into a necklace

B) "Pieces" of shell, (especially the Abalone shell) which were "cut" into

various shapes and drilled for pendants or necklaces, many of these

were also "incised" by the natives for additional decoration

3) Dentalium, a conical-shaped shell used as "Wampum" money,

especially in the western coastal states

4) Metallic, often tubular beads which were made by the Native Americans

after first contact with the Europeans, and which were made from many

different European metallic items, such as rifle parts

5) Stone beads, which are VERY old and were mostly for adornment

For other "Ornamental" items and pendants, please visit our "Bone & Shell"

pages. These contain more elaborate incised and carved ornamental pendants

made from bone, stone or shells

Item:	Type:	Provenance:	Price
XDBTB28	A nice 26" strand of 134	Recovered during the early	190.00
	trade beads in assorted colors	1960's by Norman Gee in
	with one "purple" bead, which	Sacramento, CA
	I've never seen before

Item:	Type:	Provenance:	Price
XDBTB29	A most attractive 18" strand of 60	Recovered during the early	180.00
	larger trade beads in assorted	1960's by Norman Gee in
	colors with a number of "speckled	Sacramento, CA
	egg" types having a lavender center,
	which I've never seen before

Item:	Type:	Provenance:	Price
XDBTB31	A most attractive 24" strand of	Recovered during the early	190.00
	87 trade beads in assorted colors	1960's by Norman Gee in
	with a number of "speckled egg"	Sacramento, CA
	types having a lavender center,
	which I've never seen before

Item:	Type:	Provenance:	Price
DBTB32	A most attractive and varied 17" strand	Recovered during the early	SOLD
	consisting of 39 Russian facetted trade	1960's by Norman Gee in
	beads, each separated by a white	Sacramento, CA
	Venetian glass trade bead for a total of 80
	trade beads. The Russian facetted beads
	are pretty scarce, and this strand has
	colors which I've never seen before with
	the Russian facetted examples I've
	handled in the past. The break-down
	of the facetted beads' colors are:
	5 Transparent purple
	2 Transparent green
	3 Transparent clear
	1 solid white
	1 solid powder blue		6/15
	1 solid dark blue

Item:	Type:	Provenance:	Price
DBTB33	A VERY nice 18" strand of 51	Recovered during the early	SOLD
	tubular and circular trade beads. It	1960's by Norman Gee in
	has 8 chevron types with 2 having 6	Sacramento, CA
	layers !!! and 6 having 4 layers. Also
	on this strand are 7 larger tubular red
	glass with pale yellow center beads
	and 4 large white glass tubular beads.
	A VERY exceptional assortment for
	the serious bead collector, or for
	someone who would just like to add		6/15
	a little variety to an artifact case.

Item:	Type:	Provenance:	Price
XDBTB34	WOW !... A whopping group of	Recovered during the	300.00
	733 assorted loose beads: 646	early 1960's by Norman	(Please Note:
	white with 87 assorted colors, one	Gee in Sacramento, CA	"stringing charge", if
	being the smallest blue Russian		desired, is EXTRA !!!)
	facetted bead I've ever seen !
	(and YES !... this consignor DID
	count them... and YES !... I DID
	tell him that he has entirely too
	much spare time on his hands !!!)

Item:	Type:	Provenance:	Price
SWTB14	A highly attractive and painstakingly	South Dakota	SOLD
	made, multi-colored trade bead
	Choker having the original string
	stranding. The "patterns" in the
	choker most likely can identify a		6/3
	specific tribal band affiliation.

Item:	Type:	Provenance:	Price
DATB322	A nice 30" strand of olivella	Recovered at Klamath	75.00
	shell beads in a nice assortment	Lake, Oregon, where
	of colors and shades	they were traded from
		the N. Californian tribes
		Ex: Milton Tuck

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