270 BEADS. 



(31.) Small ruby-colored beads of irregular shapes, spheric, oval, and 

 facetted. Plate XIII, Fig. 24. 



(3-') Spheric, ruby-colored, £ to | inch in size, marked with white 

 foliate lines. This and the next example are of well-known Venetian pat- 

 terns. Plate XIII, Fig. 25. Dos Pueblos and La Patera, 



(33.) Slender, about J inch long, dark blue, hooped with raised lines 

 of white or yellow. Plate XIII, Fig. 27. La Patera. 



(34.) Two star-pattern, polychrome, cylindric beads. Plate XIII, Figs. 

 14, 15. A pattern called "rosetta" at Venice, where spheric and cylindric 

 forms of it are still made. The larger is nearly 1 inch long and f diameter. 

 They are composed of glass or enamel of several colors, one surrounding 

 another, so that they are visible only at the ends, until these are rounded 

 or ground in sloping facets, when all the colors appear. The inner colors 

 are arranged to form a star or zigzag line in section, the edge of the rays of 

 which often appear through the translucent exterior color in longitudinal 

 lines of a paler blue when the exterior of the bead has this color, and the 

 outer rays of the star are white. The Venetians seem to have inherited the 

 art of making them, for they are known to Egyptian and Phoenician an- 

 tiquity ; they occur in graves in Europe and America. On this continent 

 they have been found iu Canada, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and 

 California. The Smithsonian Institution has specimens from New York, 

 Santa Barbara, Cal., and one from a mound in Florida, in connection with 

 which I have given various details and bibliographic references.* In the 

 archaic specimens I have seen in Europe and America the outer layer is 

 blue, the modern Venetian examples being blue, red, green, and yellow, the 

 last striped with black. 



The Smithsonian Institution has recently secured a collection of about 

 five hundred varieties of modern Venetian beads. That Institution and 

 also the Peabody Museum at Cambridge have many specimens from abo- 

 riginal natives and their graves, and collectors would do well to add to those 

 collections from all sources. Interesting examples occur in the Cesnola and 

 Egyptian collections of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and my own 



* Since published in the Smithsonian Report for 1877, p. 203, fig. 1. 



