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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 9729905, member: 8267&quot;]The colors of the beadwork are typical, and it is not uncommon to see those golden, translucent beads on Yoruba objects.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is nice to have at least some history for it, although third hand. I can see that the seed beads are irregular in shape, which is characteristic of the older beads made in Italy and Bohemia/Czechoslovakia. By the mid 20th century Japanese companies developed techniques to create much more uniform shapes. But beads can be saved and reused over time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not familiar with any references that provide detailed information on a historical sequence of seed beads available in West Africa, and most comparative examples I have found are either not securely dated or assigned a broad period such as &quot;late 19th - early 20th century&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to pursue this, I can suggest searching the online collections of various anthropology museums, looking for objects with documented collection dates. Each museum&#039;s system is different, and takes some time to figure out, but here are a few links that might be fruitful:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/" rel="nofollow">https://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://fowler.ucla.edu/digital-collections/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://fowler.ucla.edu/digital-collections/" rel="nofollow">https://fowler.ucla.edu/digital-collections/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/anth/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/anth/" rel="nofollow">https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/anth/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.penn.museum/collections/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.penn.museum/collections/" rel="nofollow">https://www.penn.museum/collections/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://collections.rom.on.ca/advancedsearch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collections.rom.on.ca/advancedsearch" rel="nofollow">https://collections.rom.on.ca/advancedsearch</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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