Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

Africa

 

Bead mould

Ghana

 

Thought to have been collected by Robert Powley Wild

Given to the Museum in 1934

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This clay mould from Ghana was used to cast glass beads into shape. Molten glass was poured into the mould, which has circular bead-shaped depressions, and sticks to make the perforations. Glass bead making in Africa is not now very common. Since the fifteenth century, most beads used in African communities have been imported from Europe.

View database record 1934.40.12.1