Ethnographic Beadwork:
Aspects of Manufacture, Use and Conservation
Edited by Margot M. Wright

ISBN: 1-873132-87-5 • 2001 • $35 • Paper

This volume, edited by Margot Wright of the Marischal Museum at the Universtity of Aberdeen, assembles thirteen papers on significant and fascinating aspects of the technology and conservation of beadwork, describing artefacts originating in Europe, Africa, India, South East Asia and North America, and highlighting the diversity of materials from which beads may be made, from stone, glass and clay to modern materals such as plastics.