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FRENCH WHITE HEART BEADS
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Price: $15.00
Sale Price: $10.50
You Save: $4.50 (30 %)
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Item Number: bd13
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For nearly 300 years, beads served as a
mean of exchange in America. Shell beads originated with Indians but
were replaced by European glass beads which were traded to Indians.
They were also uses as currency in the colonies where hard money was
scarce. Following are original trade beads, wampum, used in America’s
first three centuries.
Made in the second half of the 19th century for the Woodland
Indian, (Ottawa, Iroquois, Chippewa, Mic Mac and others) market. White
core and translucent deep red outer shell giving a vibrant reflective
surface. 2.2 mm (over 5/64 inch). 30 beads totaling about 2”.
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