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 72 pages and 6 color plates.

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Beads 17 (2005) contains the following articles:

Necklaces Used in the Santería of Cuba, by Lourdes S. Domínguez; translated by Jayson Rubio

Die Perle: A 1920s German Trade Journal, by Anita von Kahler Gumpert and Karlis Karklins

Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Manufacture of Drawn Glass Tubing for Glass Beads, by Lester A. Ross

Elemental Analyses of North American Glass Trade Beads, by R.G.V. Hancock

Thirteen-Hundred-Year-Old Bead Adornments from Baar, Canton Zug, Switzerland, by Katharina Müller; translated by Sandy Hämmerle