Bead Collection

Lawton, Mary, Miss, portrait photograph, 1915. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Lawton, Mary, Miss, portrait photograph, 1915

Bead, 7th century BC. Creator: Unknown
Bead, 7th century BC. Additional Info: Cast, round mosaic glass bead with patterns of a yellow and gray checkerboard and a white flower with a yellow and red center against a blue background

Mask Bead, 5th-4th century BC. Creator: Unknown
Mask Bead, 5th-4th century BC. Additional Info: Phoenician opaque glass bead of a bearded male head. The male has wide white eyes and blue pupils, a prominent nose, hair and a long beard

Opaque Dark Blue Mask Bead, 5th-4th century BC. Creator: Unknown
Opaque Dark Blue Mask Bead, 5th-4th century BC. Additional Info: Phoenician opaque glass mask bead

Bead, 1st century BC. Creator: Unknown
Bead, 1st century BC. Additional Info: Cast, clear glass bead, rectangular is shape with one rounded end. There is a hole down the length of the bead for attachment

Mask Bead, 5th-4th century BC. Creator: Unknown
Mask Bead, 5th-4th century BC. Additional Info: Cast, opaque white bead with details in purplish-black. A small loop for attachment is on top of the head

Bead, 10th-9th century BC. Creator: Unknown
Bead, 10th-9th century BC. Additional Info: Core-formed round bead of mosaic glass made up of a pattern of black and white stripes with canes of green, yellow, and red glass

Bead, 8th-9th century BC. Creator: Unknown
Bead, 8th-9th century BC. Additional Info: Mosaic glass bead with a red and white pattern against a green background. A hole runs through the length of the bead so it can act as a pendant

Three Feathers-A Nez Perce Native American, 1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Three Feathers-A Nez Perce Native American, 1905. Portrait of Native American man in 3/4 pose in feather headdress and graduated bead necklaces holding white feathers upright in left hand

Wishram Girl, 1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Wishram Girl, 1910. Portrait of young Native American woman in beaded jacket, necklaces, with two ponytails, beads in her hair and a thin white bone through her nose

Wet-Apsaroke, 1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Wet-Apsaroke, 1908. Head and shoulders portrait of Native American male with feather in hair and graduated beaded necklaces

A Tewa Girl, 1921. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A Tewa Girl, 1921. Portrait of young Native American woman with squash blossom hairstyle and short bead necklace

Oceti Sakowin Oyate Woman, 1860-1880. Creator: HH Whitney
Oceti Sakowin Oyate Woman, 1860-1880. A studio portrait of a Oceti Sakowin Oyate woman seated in 3/4 profile, dressed in a floral patterned dress with strands of beads around her neck

Thunder Cloud, Blackfeet, 1898. Creators: Adolph F. Muhr, Frank A. Rinehart
Thunder Cloud, Blackfeet, 1898. Direct frontal portrait of Native American male in dark, button-down shirt wearing twelve strands of beads, beaded earrings, two long braids and hair cut short on top

Bead, 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D. Creator: Unknown
Bead, 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D. Additional Info: Translucent cobalt (molded?) glass janiform ornament, each side representing the frontal head of a bearded man

Bead, 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D. Creator: Unknown
Bead, 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D. Additional Info: Opaque green, red, blue and black bead with a human face rendered in the millefiori technique

Fragment of a Fresco Panel with a Meal Preparation, A.D. 1-79. Creator: Unknown
Fragment of a Fresco Panel with a Meal Preparation, A.D. 1-79

Indian Beadwork, Yankee Notions, &c. about 1870. Creator: William England
Indian Beadwork, Yankee Notions, &c. about 1870

Florence Walton, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Florence Walton, between c1915 and c1920

Muriel Rice, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Muriel Rice, 1910

Mrs. Wm. Sulzer, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Wm. Sulzer, between c1910 and c1915

Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress, Iran, 12th-early 13th century. rare example from the Seljuq period

Ensemble, American, ca. 1885. Creator: Mme. Uoll Gross
Ensemble, American, ca. 1885

Olga Nethersole, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Olga Nethersole, between c1910 and c1915. Shows English actress and stage producer Olga Isabella Nethersole, (1869/1870-1951)

Ober as Amneris, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Ober as Amneris, between c1910 and c1915. Shows American opera singer Margarethe Arndt-Ober (1885-1971) as Amneris in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida

Lois Ewell, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Lois Ewell, 1913. Shows American opera singer and Broadway performer Lois Ewell (b. 1885)

Nina Napier, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Nina Napier, 1913. Shows Broadway actress Nina Napier

Mrs. W.P. Jackson, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. W.P. Jackson, between c1910 and c1915. Shows the wife of Senator William P. Jackson of Maryland whose term began in March 1913

Mrs. Howard Elliott, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Howard Elliott, between c1910 and c1915

Mrs. Helen Gardner, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Helen Gardner, between c1910 and c1915

Sari Petrass, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Sari Petrass, between c1910 and c1915. Shows Hungarian operetta actress and singer Sa´ri Petra´ss (1888-1930)

Mrs. Clinton Backus, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Clinton Backus, between c1910 and c1915

Virginia Schaeffer, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Virginia Schaeffer, between c1910 and c1915

Mrs. H.H. Lund, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. H.H. Lund, between c1910 and c1915

Outside church of St. Jean Baptiste, selling beads, etc. between c1910 and c1915

A Venetian Interior, c1880-82. Creator: John Singer Sargent
A Venetian Interior, c1880-82. Some of the women in this dimly lit interior string together Venetian glass beads, while others pause for a moment of convivial conversation

The end of the nakosnik of the wife of Stepan Suturov from Nalimka, 1920. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

Jewelry made from beaded ribbon with a cross (Stepan Suturov's wife), Selkups, 1920. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

Beaded Hairpin in a Woman's Hair, Ust'-Ozernoe, 1927. Novosibirsk State Museum of Regional History and Folklife

Portrait of a Young Woman as Portia Catonis, 1551-1603

Mrs. Allan Lehman, portrait photograph, 1918 Dec. 31. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. Allan Lehman, portrait photograph, 1918 Dec. 31

Mrs. H.R. Lee, portrait photograph, 1918 Oct. 30. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. H.R. Lee, portrait photograph, 1918 Oct. 30

Mrs. La Barre, portrait photograph, 1918 May 17. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. La Barre, portrait photograph, 1918 May 17

Mme. Edwards, portrait photograph, 1919 May 3. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Madame Edwards, portrait photograph, 1919 May 3

Mrs. H.C. Dodge, portrait photograph, 1917 Nov. 21. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. H.C. Dodge, portrait photograph, 1917 Nov. 21

Pair of Woman's Bar Shoes, between c.1880 and c.1885. Creator: Unknown
Pair of Woman's Bar Shoes, between c.1880 and c.1885

Saint Nicholas, 1563. Creator: Jacques de Poindre
Saint Nicholas, 1563

Northwest Coast, c.1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Northwest Coast, c.1927. Female portrait

Kenowun, Nunivak, 1928. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Kenowun, Nunivak, 1928

Woman's Costume-Cheyenne, 1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Woman's Costume-Cheyenne, 1927

Itsipstsinikyi ('Kills-Inside')-Piegan, 1926. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Itsipstsinikyi ('Kills-Inside')-Piegan, 1926

Khoikhoi woman with infant, c.1675-c.1725. Creator: Anon
Khoikhoi woman with infant, c.1675-c.1725

African woman with hand drum, c.1675-c.1725. Creator: Anon
African woman with hand drum, c.1675-c.1725. African woman dressed in a blue/white striped skirt and white beads around her neck

Relics from the Buried City of Brahmunabad, in Sind - Pottery, Ironwork, Glass, etc, 1857. 8th- or 9th-century objects excavated at his own expense by Mr. A. F

North Holland woman standing with an ornament or bag in hand, 1652

Mrs A.J. Zubli-Maschhaupt, 1887. Creator: Pieter de Josselin de Jong
Mrs A.J. Zubli-Maschhaupt, 1887. Portrait of Geertruijda Zubli-Maschhaupt

Niemeyer, Miss, or Mrs. Pfiefer, portrait photograph, not before 1916

Mrs. W.H. Van Velck, portrait photograph, 1918 June 15. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. W.H. Van Velck, portrait photograph, 1918 June 15

Miss Marcia Van Dresser, portrait photograph, 1919 Oct. 4. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Miss Marcia Van Dresser, portrait photograph, 1919 Oct. 4. American operatic soprano and actor

Damrosch, Gretchen, Miss, portrait photograph, 1913. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Damrosch, Gretchen, Miss, portrait photograph, 1913

Cornwall, Charles, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1914 Aug. 6. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Cornwall, Charles, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1914 Aug. 6

Cloud, A.T. Mrs. portrait photograph, 1913. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Cloud, A.T. Mrs. portrait photograph, 1913

Claussen, Julia, Miss, portrait photograph, 1916 Mar. 2. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Claussen, Julia, Miss, portrait photograph, 1916 Mar. 2

Christian, Miss, portrait photograph, 1915 May 7. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Christian, Miss, portrait photograph, 1915 May 7

Charles, Lillian, Miss, portrait photograph, 1916. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Charles, Lillian, Miss, portrait photograph, 1916

Bulen, Miss, portrait photograph, 1914 Dec. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Bulen, Miss, portrait photograph, 1914 Dec

Brenon, Juliet and Aileen, Misses, portrait photograph, 1912 or 1913

Blair, Sophia, Miss, portrait photograph, 1912 July 5. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Blair, Sophia, Miss, portrait photograph, 1912 July 5

Birmingham, Alma, Miss, portrait photograph, 1914 Jan. 10. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Birmingham, Alma, Miss, portrait photograph, 1914 Jan. 10

Biddle, A.J. Drexel, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1916 Nov. 20. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Biddle, A.J. Drexel, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1916 Nov. 20

Bianchi, William, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1915 Dec. or 1916 Jan. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Bianchi, William, Mrs. portrait photograph, 1915 Dec. or 1916 Jan

Mrs. Russell, 1919 Mar. 8. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. Russell, 1919 Mar. 8

Mrs. J. Rittenhouse, portrait photograph, 1919 Apr. 11. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. J. Rittenhouse, portrait photograph, 1919 Apr. 11

Miss Flore Revalles, portrait photograph, 1918 Sept. 26. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Revalles, Flore, Miss, portrait photograph, 1918 Sept. 26. Swiss singer, dancer and actress

Miss Reilly, portrait photograph, 1918 Oct. 28. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Miss Reilly, portrait photograph, 1918 Oct. 28

Mrs. Claudia Smith, portrait photograph, 1918 Sept. 13. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. Claudia Smith, portrait photograph, 1918 Sept. 13

Mrs. Thomas Moore, portrait photograph, 1917 Dec. 13. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. Thomas Moore, portrait photograph, 1917 Dec. 13

Serge, Dancer at Sylvan Theatre, 1917

Warren, Gertrude, Miss, or Miss Jackman, portrait photograph, 1912 or 1913

Walters, L. Miss, portrait photograph, 1914 Aug. 19. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Walters, L. Miss, portrait photograph, 1914 Aug. 19

Mrs. Stuart Benson, portrait photograph Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. Stuart Benson, portrait photograph, 1924 July 30. Address: 229 E. 48th St. New York City

Young Man in a Pearl-trimmed Cap, 1650-1659. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Young Man in a Pearl-trimmed Cap, 1650-1659

Mikhail Fyodorovitch (1613-45), Russian Tsar; Equestrian figure, 1650-1700

Morganthau, Ruth, portrait photograph, 1912 Nov. 20. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Morganthau, Ruth, portrait photograph, 1912 Nov. 20

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