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
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