United State, Antebellum, Slavery
Description
Hexagonal faceted blue glass bead, transparent medium cobalt blue with an opaque light blue or whitish tube at the center. Appears to match Kidd & Kidd type IIIf2. Ascher and Fairbanks (1971:8) suggest it is most likely this was carried from Africa by a slave, noting that it also could have come to the site through a more complex network of exchanges involving Native and Euro-American people. This type is well known from Native and slave contexts in the Southeast, although this bead is a relatively small example.
6mm Long, 6mm Faceted Diameter Glass Blue Trade Beads Beads (Pierced Objects)
Circa 1790 1850
