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Etched Carnelian Beads1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Horace C. Beck
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There are two main types of these beads. The first type which is much the more usual has the pattern made with white lines on a background of the natural colour of the stone. The second type has the whole surface of the stone whitened and then a design in black made upon it, the whitened surface of the stone forming a white background. Specimens of this type are very uncommon.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1933 , pp. 384 - 398
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1933

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References

page 384 note 2 The actual method by which this has been done recently in India is described by Mr. Ernest Mackay in Man, 1933, no. 150.

page 390 note 1 Whilst this paper is in the press I have seen four specimens from Harappa, where they are stated to be rare. Three of them are type I beads, one is a type II bead but has the almost unique technique of putting the black lines direct on to a red background. The patterns are somewhat similar to the designs on pl. lxxi, A 5 and A 11. These specimens all belong to the early period.

page 390 note 2 Ernest Mackay, Anthropological Memoirs of the Field Museum, Chicago, vol. i, pl. lx, 55.

page 394 note 1 Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization, p. 516.

page 397 note 1 See also footnote on p. 390.