OK A POLYCHROME BEAD FROM FLORIDA. 303 



Denmark. He also copies (fig. 3) one of Schoolcraft's figures of a smaller 

 cylindric bead from the ossuaries at Beverly, Canada. Somewhat 

 similar to the Stockholm specimen is a bead in the National Mu- 

 seum (Fig. 2) from Santa Barbara, Cal., in which the exterior blue is 



Fig. 2. 



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minutely and thickly speckled with yellowish points. The same collec- 

 tion has examples of the small spherical kind from graves at Lima, N. Y.; 

 and I have a specimen found on the Susquehanna, with other remains, 

 in digging the Pennsylvania canal, about the year 1830.* 



The exterior blue is usually more or less clearly striped with a lighter 

 tint, owing to the ridges of the interior white shining through. In all 

 the specimens, and in such as I have seen in Euroi)e, the order of the 

 colors toward the interior is blue-white-red-white, with an additional 

 central color in some of the larger ones, that of the large Louvre ex- 

 ample being dark blue. This order is present in modern Venetian beads, 

 of which I have examples much like that of Santa Barbara, Cal., and 

 in those from New York and the Susquehanna, but the last two are 

 more neatly made, the white, wavy band in the Susquehanna specimen 

 being very slender, delicate, and regular. The external tint of the mod- 

 ern Venetian cylindric beads is blue, green, red, or longitudinally striped 

 with several colors, and the Louvre has blue and also green ancient 

 Egyptian specimens. 



Mr. Morlot's paper is intended to show that the Northmen received 

 these beads from the Phoenicians and carried them to America, a view 

 which is opposed by Mr. A. W. Franks, F. S. A., of the British Museum, 

 who thinks that the Beverly specimen figured by Schoolcraft is Venetian 

 of the fifteenth or sixteenth century,t a view which is probably correct 

 for all the North American examples. Of these, the New York speci- 

 mens show signs of oxidation, while that from the Susquehanna is un- 

 tarnished. 



* Proceed. Am. Phil. Soc, May, 1869, vol. 11, p. 360. Mr. Thos. Masterson, of Colum- 

 "bia. Pa., has added to my cabinet a fine specimen, but little tarnished, from a grave in 

 Tioga County, Pa., and he has the longitudinal half of another, If inch long and l^V 

 in diameter, found at Turky Hill, below Columbia, Pa. 



t Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, January 28, 1864. Lubbock, Prehistoric 

 Times, ch. 3. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Franks for valuable ancient and 

 modern additions to my cabinet of beads. 



