40222

Valuable Pomo Magnesite Beads

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 800.00 USD
Valuable Pomo Magnesite Beads
SOLD
50.00USD+ (10.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2021 Mar 16 @ 07:31UTC-7 : PDT/MST

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Title: Valuable Pomo Magnesite Beads
Description: Though the Pomo Tribe of central California was the major supplier of clamshell beads for use as money, they also made high-value beads of baked magnesite. Baking magnesite nodules changed their color to an attractive orange, and they were then shaped into cylinders, ground, drilled, and strung. A single magnesite bead of good color was worth 800 clamshell beads. This lot has two mounted magnesite beads plus a pamphlet about them. See Don Taxay, Money of the American Indians (Flushing, N.Y., 1970), pp. 68-69; Lois Sherr Dubin, North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment (New York, 1999), p. 434; and Opitz, p. 56.
Low Estimate: 250
High Estimate: 800
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