Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Agate beads

India or Bangladesh

 

Collected by Paul Olaf Bodding

Given to the Museum in 1930

 

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Agate beads, India or Bangladesh

In many cultures, beads have been used for protection. These ancient agate beads from Bengal were used by Santal people in the early twentieth century as amulets against dysentery.

View database record 1930.19.45-.67