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ORIGIN OF SARAWAK BEADS.
Theories Concerning Ranee's Collection.
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lands near Venice from a very Malay.States Museums, Vol. XV, p.
early dato, probably before 900 29) describes similar beads as hav A.D., and has been made there ever Ing been discovered in a site at since.
Santubong off the coast of Sarawak.
ny
. An elaborate eye bead shows the According to Mesars. Everett and method by which it was made. Hewitt this site contains remains rather plainly. It is entirely built belonging to two periods, one being up from canes. Owing to the in-600 to 900 A.D., and the other 1660 sufficient heating the points have to 1850 A.D. not completely fused and show Another series of beads are those clearly.
decorated with longitudinal stripes. Some of the beads have very Some have a black base and white elaborate patterns, such the stripe. Others have black or blue Through the kindness of I.H. swirled bead which is very sugges-bases with coloured stripes, same of the Rance Margaret of Sarawak tive of Roman work but probably these are segmented or double. It and of Captain Bertram Brooke, later copy.
is very interesting to note that a have been enabled to
several Are
elaborate bead very similar to this last but large number of the Idghly-prized chequer bends. In these the canes not double has been found at Kuala beads which are collected and hoard- from which the bead was finally Selinslag, Malaysia, where it is ed by the natives of Sarawak, more made were formed by fusing to-supposed to date between the sixth particularly by the Kenyahs and gether more than a hundred small and ninth centuries A.D.
The com- Kayaks.
Amongst the beads decorated withi square section A few of the simpler forms of pound cane thus formed was broker apots or eyes is a black variety with these beads are similar to the ones up into short pieces which were spots made by Impressing a beat up of Kuala Selinsing in the Federated fused together so as to form a bead. thread of two colours. This is Malay States, and to those found By some curious manipulation the quite a different method employed, in the deserted vilage site pattern showing inside the perfora- in making stratified eyes where
examine a There
canes.
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in South India, but the majority are tion is nearly as good as that out-spots of different coloured glasses' very difficult to place.
side. This can be seen in the draw- are superimposed. In some cases these impressed threads are care- A few of the specimens showing of a broken bead. such great sinularity to early types The purple eye bead, with while lessly inserted so that it can easily found in Europe that I think they eyes is made by cutting off two be seen how they are made.
In other cases the ends ONLY European beads are early
which pieces of eye cane and then bend
round a wire, are 80 neatly jolned that have travelled to Sarawak. Others ing them together appear to be
copies of European possibly they were bent round the it is extremely difficult to be certain beads, but made in a different man- wire before they were cut off. The how they were made. These beads ner, whilst a few others are closely white tubular part of the cane then are called Kelam Buang, or bear allied to the antique glass found in shows as bands on one part of the beads, and are sought after by the a small area in Southern Formosa.surface and as eyes an another natives and worn on the girdles of TO
It has been suggested that these part, the effect being rather like girls.
Amongst the types. of rosette Transfigure bends are of Chinese or Japanese pieces of macaroni.
the former The beads are good origin. As regards
exam- bends not yet mentioned is a rather country this seems to be very im-ples of folded beads, the pat-frequently found one with a yellow You. probable, as the rare specimens of tern having been arranged by join-base and three rosettes, of varying whilst In between each Chinese glass which are more than ing canes together and bending colours
old have a them whilst in the flat, and then rosette is a row of three black A couple of centuries very high specific gravity. The the piece of glass whilst plastic has spota.
Another case of copying an old majority of the Sarawak beads have been folded round a wire and the
model occurs In some smail eye a very low specific gravity and. ends butted and fused together.
The mosaic cylinder bead is a beads with three large white eyes although some of them have a high one. they have not nearly such a well-known Roman type, but whe on which are yellow centre with five bead or green spots round it. These beads high one as the carly Chinese beads ther this is a Roman
which 1 believe to be relatively As regards Japan as a possible copy is difficult to say,
The zone bead and a similar kind modern. are evidently inspired by a country of origin, I have no evid- ence; but if such large numbers of with a red base are extremely like type which started in Greek times. these elaborate beads came from the trade beads sent to Africn about Mr. Ivor Evans states that live of These trade beads these beads have been discovered at there, one would have expected to a century go. find them also amongst the ojime were often copies from beads al-Santubong.
One of the most frequent types on the medicine case strings. rendy valued by various natives, and
Amongst the beads that I believe it is impossible to say with absolute of bead are some small short cylin theas are trade der beads of blue and yellow glass. to be early is a white bead with a certainty whether
almost disc beads "the purple manganese band round it. beads or the beads that the trade These are This is so strikingly like the little beads were copied from, but pro- diameter being about two-and-a-half times the length. They are highly white bottles with purple decora- bably they are the former. tions found in various
parts of South Italy and the Eastern Mediterrancan which are dated to the fourth and third centuries B.C.. that think it is probably of the same date.
A type of bead, similar to the prized by the natives and are very Formosan has a blue base. The difficult to place as they do not seem white band is wound round the blue to be old as the Malay bends. I
that they were pro whilst both are partially plastic and should think then by means of a wire the pattern bably made by the manufacturers is drawn or combed into the re-of the elaborate eye beads.
Among the beads which are not Again, a cylinder bead, with black quired shape.
are a few of shell base and blue and red zones, is very Again, the crumb bend is very of glass there similar to La Tene beads from similar to the early crumb beads of which are not very distinctive and Corsica, sometimes dated to the the Mediterranean area but I think might be of any period, and one silver bead which, third and second centuries B.C. and it is probably a relatively modera grandulated
whilst not unlike the early Greek sometimes earlier. I think this copy.
might be of аку bead may date from that period. After the imitation cane chevrons beads
A composite eye bead is made of perhaps the most distinctive beads period. The atone beads also are canes in which each has an eye with are the "rosette" beads. These are not very numerous. A cylindrical a yellow centre, a red outer ring, made in many varieties, black, carnelian with many small facets la) and then a layer with about 17 green, dark blue, light blue, yellow, a rough piece of work and probably yellow tubes in a
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green base. and almost colourless glass being local, another approximately spheri-JEWBURY These canes are fused together to used to make the base, whilst many cal is of an unusually dark red.) make the bead. Beads of different varieties of thread and combination Amongst the onyx are two spherical NRWARE shapes but made of identical canes, of rosettes are found. These are beads very well made which look' even to the number of tubes in the of a type which the makers have modern except that the perforation I know of which is bored from one side has green base, come from Cumne, and originated on their own. are thought to date to perhaps as no other beade which are at all the broken out a considerable amount
of recently as the second century A.D. same. The idea. making a when it reached the further side. also some very small Evidence, however, is now avail- rosette or eye with a thread con- There are
coloured glasses onyx cylinders that look modern. able to show that eames of this typ sisting of two were made at least five hundred twisted together so as to make One agate bead is of considerable it closely resembles a years earlier, so that these three spirals is very old, and was used interest as types of early beads might have considerably in Egypt during the series of agate beads found in many been imported together
eighteenth Dynasty, but the results parts of Europe, and Africa, and of from these, which some seem to have a very Another fact which lends pro-were quite different bability to the theory that some of Again, in Ireland a large number early date: these bends were imported at an af beads appear with various de- early date, is that beads of un-signs made with spiral threads. doubted Greek origin, which date These are generally dated to about to about the fifth century B.C., are 200 B.C., but the results are not now being found in China, and like the specimens from Sarawak. beads believed to be Roman are Some of the rosette beads are very found in early graves in Korea. highly prized by the natives as The chevron bead, with red and much as fifteen pounds being given white bands on a blue base, is of for good specimen. exceptional interest. This is evid- A peculiar type of eye bead of ently a copy of the cane chevron which there were several in the col-
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Four Groups. From examining this
collection
of bends I have come to the con- clusion that they can be divided Into four groups:
(1) A few bends which appear to date from the Greek or early Roman period.
(II) A few beads which agree with the beads from South India and Malayala, where they are dated to from the sixth to tenth century A.D.
(III) The great majority, in- cluding the chevron and orna- mental beads, which are very difficult to place.
(IV) A comparatively few re- latiyely modern, any early to middle nineteenth century, trade beads.
The place of origin of the third
a series of chevrons. In Amongst the collection there were these Sarawak beads a very similar a number of zona beads with a effect is got by taking a blue base black base and a white zone; some with a small white centre and then of these are approximately spheri elaborately reproducing the red and cal beads, although almost iden- white chevrons by applying threads tical in appearance, are made of group, and their dats, are extremely of red and white glass. In some completely different kinds of glass, difficult to find. A few, but only cases this is so sklifully done that and I expect that they are of dif.a few, agree with the beads found a casual observer could easily mis- ferent dates, one being early and in. Formosa. From the similarity take it for a cane chevron bead. made from a non-lead glass, whilst of the chevron beads to the cane chevron beads of Europe and the second is a later copy in a fairly Africa, it seems certain that they European Intuence. It seems obvious that these are heavy lead glass. The same ap
were made In Europe or. cópled European beads, but plies to the two barrel-shaped beads from European models. If made in copied from there is no evidence of their place One of these spherical bende is in Europe why do we not find them in of origin. Probably many, if not distinguishable from a bead on a European countries? So far na I most, of the other elaborate beads Ptolemaic, or early Roman necklace know they are unknown there. The were made in the same place, but in the British Museum.
rosette beads also are a group by. where? and when? The majority The twisted square beads in themselves and so attractive in
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that it seems facon- appearance of the beads show considerable sigas manganeso glass is a type of bead of cirrosion when examined critic- very common in Roman times and ceivable that they should not be ally, so I judge they are of con- although I suspect that they have found in Europe if originally inade THE B-B-C-COMPANY siderable age. The makers of these also been made much more recently there. China has been suggested
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nothing similar variety la apparently identical to n paper will bring forward further found amongst the Venetian beads, bead from Africa sopposed to be evidence which will settle thia what we low that the true cane an early trade bend. Mr. Ivor question-Horace C. Beck-From chevron, bead was made in the Erans (Journal of the Federated"Man."
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