BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers is devoted to furthering knowledge about beads and beadwork of all periods, materials, and cultures.  This issue contains 104 pages and 4 color plates.

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Beads 1 (1989) contains the following articles:

Diakhité: A Study of the Beads from an 18th-19th-Century Burial Site in Senegal, West Africa, by Marie-José and Howard Opper

Beads of the Early Islamic Period, by Peter Francis, Jr.

Beads as Chronological Indicators in West African Archaeology: A Reexamination, by Christopher DeCorse

The Beads of St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, by Karlis Karklins and Norman F. Barka

Bohemian Glass Beadmaking: Translation and Discussion of a 1913 German Technical Article, by Lester A. Ross with Barbara Pflanz