Glass Seed Beads
Dublin Core
Title
Glass Seed Beads
Subject
Artifacts
Description
These traded beads come from an Early Historic period site in Roanoke County in the Blue Ridge region of west-central Virginia. They include shell, bone, and glass “seed” beads and a larger bone disk bead. Glass beads were introduced by Europeans into Native American exchange systems, which have placed value on copper and shell beads since the Middle Woodland period and possibly earlier. Virginia Indians used trade goods to navigate relationships with colonists during the early seventeenth century.
Source
Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, VA
Date
1600 - 1700 C.E.
Format
.JPG, 572 × 448
Type
Image
Coverage
Montgomery County
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photograph
Physical Dimensions
572 × 448
Citation
“Glass Seed Beads,” Virginia Indian Archive, accessed May 28, 2022, https://virginiaindianarchive.org/items/show/512.