Shell, Bone, and Glass Seed Beads
Dublin Core
Title
Shell, Bone, and Glass Seed Beads
Subject
Artifacts
Description
These artifacts 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 beads since the Late Archaic period and possibly earlier. Virginia Indians used trade goods to navigate relationships with colonists during the early seventeenth century. (Photo enhanced)
Source
Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, VA
Date
1600 - 1700 C.E.
Format
.JPG, 532 × 773
Type
Image
Coverage
Roanoke County
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photograph
Physical Dimensions
532 × 773
Citation
“Shell, Bone, and Glass Seed Beads,” Virginia Indian Archive, accessed May 28, 2022, https://virginiaindianarchive.org/items/show/515.