Bead Collection

SSanta Fe, New Mexico, United States. Indian Market, Native American basket

Indonesia, Papua, Raja Ampat. Sweetlip fish swims over sea fan
Sweetlip fish swims over gorgonian coral, Raja Ampat Islands, Irian Jaya, West Papua, Indonesia. Credit as: Jones-Shimlock / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont

Upper Tahquamenon Falls in autumn at Tahquamenon Falls State Park, Michigan, USA
Tahquamenon Falls, Tahquamenon Falls State Park, Michigan, USA

MACEDONIA, Ohrid. Sveti Jovan at Kaneo Church (13th century) and Lake Ohrid / Morning

Southwest, American Indian art & handicrafts. Navajo blanket, beadwork, turquoise necklace, silver & turquoise belt buckle, 12-century Anasazi Mimbres bowl. PR

Southwest, Indian handicrafts. Jemez pottery, 12-century Anasazi Mimbres bowl, Navajo buckle, Navajo bead work & turquoise necklaces, Acoma seed pot. PR

Early light on The Quiraing, Isle of Skye, Scotland, United Kingdom

Msai tribe people couple in costume traditional dress in jungles near hut near Kenya Africa (MR)

Women from Lublin, Poland
Village peasant women from Lublin, Poland Date: circa 1910s

Muslim with prayer beads, Abene, Casamance, Senegal, West Africa, Africa

Easter Egg decorated with beads, folklore, traditional Hungarian

Girl from Mali with wonderful beads and headdress
Young Soninke Girl from Mali wearing wonderful beads and beaded headdress. The Soninke (also called Sarakole, Seraculeh, or Serahuli)

Two Indian women are approached by a bead merchant Date: early 20th century?

Hamer Woman, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Portrait of Hamer woman, Dimeka, Omo Valley

Venezuela, Angel Falls, Canaima National Park

ALASKA: WOMAN AND BASKETS. A Tlingit Native American woman in Yakutat, Alaska, holding a Haida crest hat and a bag on her lap while seated among baskets made by local villagers. Photographed c1900

Colorado, Grand Junction, Colorado National Monument. Independence Rock Overlook, typical red rock formations. Views of Grand Junction in the distance

Lawton, Mary, Miss, portrait photograph, 1915. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Lawton, Mary, Miss, portrait photograph, 1915

USA, Washington, Mount Rainier National Park, Pink Monkey Flowers growing along stream

Texas, South Padre Island, Beach Morning Glory (Ipomoea imperati)
Beach Morning Glory (Ipomoea imperati), South Padre Island, Texas, USA

North America, USA, Alaska, Arctic National Park. Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus)
USA, Alaska, Arctic National Park. Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus)

Northern Ireland, Giants Causeway, near Bushmills, geologic hexagonal basalt columns
Giants Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

GREECE-Northeastern Aegean Islands-LESVOS (Mytilini)-Mithymna (Molyvos): Distant
GREECE, Northeastern Aegean Islands, LESVOS (Mytilini), Mithymna (Molyvos): Distant Town View

Play / Wilde / Salome
The dancers reward: the head on a platter. Maud Allan holds the head of Johannen. Date: 1907

DDE-90036366
Latvia, Western Latvia, Kurzeme Region, Kuldiga, Ventas Rumba, Kuldiga Waterfall, widest waterfall in Europe, width 275 meters Date: 29/11/2006

Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1404-10 (alabaster)
3468199 Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1404-10 (alabaster) by Werve, Claus de (1380-1439); 41.7x16.6x11.7 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

Fashionable women in new creations 1913
Women models wearing the latest winter beautifully decorative wraps. 1913

Woman from Lublin, Poland
Village peasant woman from Lublin, Poland Date: circa 1910s

Snowflake. Glass beads strung together to form a snowflake shape. This could be used as jewellery. Snowflakes show this hexagonal (six-sided)

Roman glass jewellery bead, SEM
Roman glass bead. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a glass bead used in jewellery in Roman times

Two Girls of the Nuer Tribe - Sudan
Two Girls (sisters?) of the Nuer Tribe - Sudan. Date: circa 1910s

Close-up portrait of old lady with glasses and traditional facial tattoo smoking a pipe, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

NAGA WARRIOR TRIBE BAMBOO DANCE, NAGALAND, NORTH EAST INDIA
India, Nagaland, Naga Warrior tribe performing bamboo dance

BAMBOO POLE CLIMBING, NAGA WARRIOR TRIBE, NAGALAND, NORTH EAST INDIA
India, Nagaland, Naga Warrior tribal feat of climbing Bamboo poles

Sudanese woman showing traditional facial scarification and elegantly braided hair - (see 10284598 and 10587718 (close-up) for the original B/W print versions). Date: circa 1907

Young girl wearing traditional headdress, Mursi tribe, Mago National Park. Omo Valley, Ethiopia

Vase, c.1895 (stoneware with silver mounts and glass beads)
500242 Vase, c.1895 (stoneware with silver mounts and glass beads) by Delaherche, Auguste (1857-1940); d:7.7 h:19.6 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA; Gift of Henry H. Hawley

Outside church of St. Jean Baptiste, selling beads, etc. between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Outside church of St. Jean Baptiste, selling beads, etc. between c1910 and c1915

A Venetian Interior, c1880-82. Creator: John Singer Sargent
A Venetian Interior, c1880-82. Some of the women in this dimly lit interior string together Venetian glass beads, while others pause for a moment of convivial conversation

Engraving depicting a child learning to count using a wire circle closed with wooden handles
5309162 Engraving depicting a child learning to count using a wire circle closed with wooden handles and an array of beads of six colours arranged in batches of three; (add.info)

A Near Eastern gentleman's linen nightcap embroidered in red and green, with silver gilt thread and sequins
1767224 A Near Eastern gentleman's linen nightcap embroidered in red and green, with silver gilt thread and sequins, trimmed with gold lace

Indian liquorice or gunja, Abrus precatorius. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by
FLO4986979 Indian liquorice or gunja, Abrus precatorius. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants

Pair of Decorated Moccasins, Native American, early 19th century (leather and beadwork) (see also 133059)
PFR133058 Pair of Decorated Moccasins, Native American, early 19th century (leather and beadwork) (see also 133059); Private Collection; © Paul Freeman; out of copyright

The end of the nakosnik of the wife of Stepan Suturov from Nalimka, 1920. Creator: A. G. Vargin
The end of the nakosnik of the wife of Stepan Suturov from Nalimka, 1920. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

Jewelry made from beaded ribbon with a cross (Stepan Suturov's wife), Selkups, 1920. Creator: A. G. Vargin
Jewelry made from beaded ribbon with a cross (Stepan Suturov's wife), Selkups, 1920. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

Beaded Hairpin in a Woman's Hair, Ust'-Ozernoe, 1927. Creator: Dmitrii Innokent'evich Karatanov
Beaded Hairpin in a Woman's Hair, Ust'-Ozernoe, 1927. Novosibirsk State Museum of Regional History and Folklife

Young Hippie Woman with Baby Oil Painting
Portrait of a Hippie mother with baby playing with beads. Wearing flower and scarf, and has peroxide hair. Vase of Strelitzia flowers and shag pile carpet

A bead and raised work panel depicting Esther and Ahasuerus
1767197 A bead and raised work panel depicting Esther and Ahasuerus by English School, (17th century); 40x30 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress, Iran, 12th-early 13th century. rare example from the Seljuq period

Ensemble, American, ca. 1885. Creator: Mme. Uoll Gross
Ensemble, American, ca. 1885

PORTRAIT OF A TRIBAL WEARING THE TRADITIONAL COSTUME OF A NAGA WARRIOR TRIBE, NAGALAND
India, Nagaland, Naga Warrior in traditional costume and head dress

NAGA WARRIOR TRIBE LADY IN TRADITIONAL COSTUME AND JEWELRY, NAGALAND, NORTH EAST INDIA
India, Nagaland, Lady from Naga Warrior tribe, with unique traditional costume and jewelry carrying a basket on her head

PORTRAIT OF A TRIBAL FROM A NAGA WARRIOR TRIBE WEARING TRADITIONAL COSTUME AND JEWELRY
India, Nagaland, Naga Warrior tribal in traditional costume and head dress

Africa, Tanzania, Manyara Region. Two Msai men

Portrait of a Msai woman wearing traditional beaded jewelry in a village near Arusha, Tanzania, Africa

Portrait of a Young Woman as Portia Catonis, 1551-1603. Creators: Santi di Tito, Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of a Young Woman as Portia Catonis, 1551-1603

Mrs. Allan Lehman, portrait photograph, 1918 Dec. 31. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. Allan Lehman, portrait photograph, 1918 Dec. 31

Mrs. H.R. Lee, portrait photograph, 1918 Oct. 30. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. H.R. Lee, portrait photograph, 1918 Oct. 30

Mrs. La Barre, portrait photograph, 1918 May 17. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. La Barre, portrait photograph, 1918 May 17

Mme. Edwards, portrait photograph, 1919 May 3. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Madame Edwards, portrait photograph, 1919 May 3

Mrs. H.C. Dodge, portrait photograph, 1917 Nov. 21. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. H.C. Dodge, portrait photograph, 1917 Nov. 21

Pair of Woman's Bar Shoes, between c.1880 and c.1885. Creator: Unknown
Pair of Woman's Bar Shoes, between c.1880 and c.1885

Saint Nicholas, 1563. Creator: Jacques de Poindre
Saint Nicholas, 1563

Northwest Coast, c.1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Northwest Coast, c.1927. Female portrait

Kenowun, Nunivak, 1928. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Kenowun, Nunivak, 1928

Woman's Costume-Cheyenne, 1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Woman's Costume-Cheyenne, 1927

Itsipstsinikyi ('Kills-Inside')-Piegan, 1926. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Itsipstsinikyi ('Kills-Inside')-Piegan, 1926

Relics from the Buried City of Brahmunabad, in Sind - Pottery, Ironwork, Glass, etc, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Relics from the Buried City of Brahmunabad, in Sind - Pottery, Ironwork, Glass, etc, 1857. 8th- or 9th-century objects excavated at his own expense by Mr. A. F

North Holland woman standing with an ornament or bag in hand, 1652. Creator: Gesina ter Borch
North Holland woman standing with an ornament or bag in hand, 1652

Mrs A.J. Zubli-Maschhaupt, 1887. Creator: Pieter de Josselin de Jong
Mrs A.J. Zubli-Maschhaupt, 1887. Portrait of Geertruijda Zubli-Maschhaupt

Niemeyer, Miss, or Mrs. Pfiefer, portrait photograph, not before 1916. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Niemeyer, Miss, or Mrs. Pfiefer, portrait photograph, not before 1916

Mrs. W.H. Van Velck, portrait photograph, 1918 June 15. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. W.H. Van Velck, portrait photograph, 1918 June 15

Miss Marcia Van Dresser, portrait photograph, 1919 Oct. 4. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Miss Marcia Van Dresser, portrait photograph, 1919 Oct. 4. American operatic soprano and actor

Damrosch, Gretchen, Miss, portrait photograph, 1913. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Damrosch, Gretchen, Miss, portrait photograph, 1913

Cornwall, Charles, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1914 Aug. 6. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Cornwall, Charles, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1914 Aug. 6

Cloud, A.T. Mrs. portrait photograph, 1913. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Cloud, A.T. Mrs. portrait photograph, 1913

Claussen, Julia, Miss, portrait photograph, 1916 Mar. 2. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Claussen, Julia, Miss, portrait photograph, 1916 Mar. 2

Christian, Miss, portrait photograph, 1915 May 7. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Christian, Miss, portrait photograph, 1915 May 7

Charles, Lillian, Miss, portrait photograph, 1916. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Charles, Lillian, Miss, portrait photograph, 1916

Bulen, Miss, portrait photograph, 1914 Dec. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Bulen, Miss, portrait photograph, 1914 Dec

Brenon, Juliet and Aileen, Misses, portrait photograph, 1912 or 1913. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Brenon, Juliet and Aileen, Misses, portrait photograph, 1912 or 1913

Blair, Sophia, Miss, portrait photograph, 1912 July 5. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Blair, Sophia, Miss, portrait photograph, 1912 July 5

Birmingham, Alma, Miss, portrait photograph, 1914 Jan. 10. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Birmingham, Alma, Miss, portrait photograph, 1914 Jan. 10

Biddle, A.J. Drexel, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1916 Nov. 20. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Biddle, A.J. Drexel, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1916 Nov. 20

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"Beads: A Global Tapestry of Culture and Beauty" From the vibrant streets of Santa Fe, New Mexico to the ancient walls of Ohrid's Sveti Jovan at Kaneo Church, beads have woven their way into the fabric of our world. These tiny treasures tell stories that transcend borders and connect us all. In Indonesia's Raja Ampat, a sweetlip fish gracefully swims over a sea fan adorned with delicate beads, showcasing nature's own artistry. Meanwhile, in Michigan's Tahquamenon Falls State Park, Upper Tahquamenon Falls cascades in breathtaking autumn hues, reflecting the beauty found even in the smallest details. The Southwest echoes with Native American heritage as Indian Market showcases intricate beadwork alongside traditional crafts. And on Scotland's Isle of Skye, early light bathes The Quiraing in an ethereal glow - a reminder that even amidst rugged landscapes, there is elegance to be found. Traveling further east brings us to Kenya's jungles where members of the Maasai tribe don stunning costumes adorned with colorful beads near their humble huts. In Senegal's Abene village, a Muslim man finds solace and connection through his prayer beads - symbols of devotion and spirituality. Beads also grace Lublin women from Poland who proudly wear them as expressions of tradition and identity. From Mali to Venezuela, these captivating adornments are cherished by people across continents; like angel falls plunging from towering cliffs or Canaima National Park’s lush wilderness – they inspire awe wherever they go. Whether it be for cultural significance or personal style statements; whether adorning jewelry or intricately crafted artworks – beads serve as timeless reminders that beauty can be found everywhere if we take time to appreciate it. So let us celebrate this universal language that transcends boundaries and unites humanity through its shimmering threads.