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 90 pages with numerous color illustrations.

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BEADS 26 (2014) contains the following articles:

Historical Descriptions of Malay “Beadwork,” by Hwei-Fen Cheah

Glass Beads from Jar Burials of the 15th-17th Centuries in the Cardamom Mountains of  Cambodia, by Alison Carter and Nancy Beavan

Shell and Glass Beads from the Tombs of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi, Lower Congo, by Charlotte Verhaeghe, Bernard-Olivier Clist, Chantal Fontaine, Karlis Karklins, Koen Bostoen, and Wim De Clercq

Archaeometrical Analysis of Glass Beads:  Potential, Limitations, and Results, by Adelphine Bonneau, Jean-François Moreau, Ron G.V. Hancock, and Karlis Karklins

Glass Beads from Champlain’s Habitation on Saint Croix Island, Maine, 1604-1613, by James W. Bradley

From the Past (1854): A Chapter on Necklaces, Old and New, by Mrs. White