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African Beads:
;The earliest Africans made beads as “fetishes”, charms, talisman and amulets for protection and adornments. The first materials were shell, stone, wood, bone, seeds, amber, ivory, teeth, clay, metals, etc. Beads were highly valuable and were also used as currency.
Trading could be done for food, livestock, etc. Beads evolve into a visual language that express rank, spirituality initiation, used to communicate culture value important to the people way of life. African people have had a special relationship with beads for thousands of years.
No other people on the planet used as many beads or in such abundance as African and the importance of the beads was not it shape, color, size or place of manufacture but the value that had been assign to it by privies generations
.Long before the first European return to Africa in the 1400’s century we were adorning ourselves with beads. Many of the beads are becoming increasingly rare and difficult to fine and some are no longer available, as worldwide demand for the beads increases.
" African Trade Beads":
this term typically applies to beads made predominately in European countries from the late 1400s through to the early 1900s, beads traded in Africa, Americas and other counties.
This "trade" period was from the mid 1800s through the early 1900s; millions of these beads were produced and traded in Africa. The Europeans dominated the African bead market.
The Beads were re- introduced to the American market in the late 1960s, by young peace core volunteer returning from Africa.
The beads became associated with the Hippie movement as symbols of love and peace. Today these beads are popular in contemporary jewelry and as collectable items .Millions are in private collections, bead and museums. All beads from the collection of MBAD/ABA African Bead Museum.
Amber Beads:
is worn in the hair of unmarried Fulani girl from herder families. Once married girls would wear large amber beads around their neck and in their hair for protection and style..
Amber was highly prized in some areas as a symbol of status and protection. A beautiful selection of old "Amber" from Mali, Morocco, Guinea and Mauritania are in this collection.
Showing the wide variety of shapes and colors all the beads are in excellent condition. Very old amber is difficult to find, increasingly valuable and highly collectable. Some of the beads were mended and most have been fitted with copper and brass to protect the preparation. All amber is from the collection of MBAD/ABA African Bead Museum.
Shell
Miller's (2,579 square feet)
12245 Jefferson Ave, Newport Marketplace, Newport News, VA
This store was built in 1985. It was formerly a Happy Store Fuel Mart that became a Mobil/Miller Mart combo in 1994.
The dried shell of a sea urchin, without its prickly cover. There are many of these scattered along the beach here where I'm staying in Maine.
Shell
Miller's (2,579 square feet)
12245 Jefferson Ave, Newport Marketplace, Newport News, VA
This store was built in 1985. It was formerly a Happy Store Fuel Mart that became a Mobil/Miller Mart combo in 1994.
These 10 year olds were not put off by the idea of painting these shells without pencil first. They then used a line drawing on an acetate overlay to create an extra dimension.
I know, shells again :D This one was for the course I'm doing and I quite liked it. And yes, the shells came home with me!
- www.kevin-palmer.com - A monocline is a bend in rock strata that are otherwise uniformly dipping or horizontal. This view is from the Shell Bench Trail.
Tales of a wandering ghost are linked to the Shell Mound at Dauphin Island. No doubt this ancient oak sentinel adds to the creepy factor.
This is an old Theo Multiple Pump beautifully restored and residing in the Lakeland Motor Museum. If you wish to see an old advert for this type of pump look below.
Shell Sheddy,.. Street Photographer and Documentarian
of the East Village and Lower East Side of N.Y. City.
NYC , NY
The house boat crew dumped us off at some random village near Kumarakom. Right next to the dock were these piles of shells and some kind of shell grinding apparatus. Or at least that's the theory.
Taken at the Evolution Store, Science & Art in Soho, New York.
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