I've been wondering if Karlis himself was going to weigh in, but I still
use Kidd and Kidd (1974), as expanded by Karklins (1985) very heavily.
However, the color attributions given by Kidd and Kidd are primarily
helpful for early bead collections. For late eighteenth and nineteenth
century assemblages, where the number of colors and varieties starts to
expand rapidly, the Kidd and Kidd colors just aren't as relevant. I am
lucky enough to have Munsell books handy but am intrigued by the online
conversions posted yesterday by Silas Hurry and others.
I advocate classifying beads using both 1) Kidd and Kidd codes (with or
w/o color attribution depending on the time period), in conjunction with
the Karklins 1985 publication, and 2) using Lester Ross's descriptive
terms used in his 1990 Fort Vancouver publication and in his 2000 Fort
Union publication (available as a cd).
The Kidd and Kidd codes are handy identifiers and combining them with
descriptive terms as used by Ross allows you to classify beads from just
about any time period.
These four publications form the backbone of bead research for me and
are an excellent place for anyone to start:
Karklins, Karlis
1985 Guide to the Description and Classification of Glass Beads. In,
Glass Beads, 2nd edition, pp. 85-118. Studies in Archaeology,
Architecture and History, Parks Canada, Ottawa.
Kidd, Kenneth E. And Martha A. Kidd
1970 A Classification System for Glass Beads for the Use of Field
Archaeologists. Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in
Archaeology and History 1:45-89.
Ross, Lester
1990 Trade Beads from Hudson's Bay Company Fort Vancouver (1829-1860),
Vancouver, Washington. Beads 2:29-67
2000 Trade Beads from Archeological Excavations at Fort Union Trading
Post National Historic Site. National Park Service, Midwest
Archeological Center and the Fort Union Association.
Laurie Burgess
Associate Chair
Department of Anthropology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
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P.O. Box 37012
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Linda France Stine LFSTINE
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 5:28 PM
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Subject: Re: Munsell Book of Colour
Always willing to show my ignorance, I wonder why no one has
mentioned the old Kidd and Kidd, Canadian Historic Sites Occasional
Paper in Archaeology and History, No. 1, 1970 article, "A
Classification System for Glass Beads for the use of Field
Archaeologists." It included a fairly simple color system derived
from Descriptive Color Names Dictionary, Container Corporation of
America, Taylor, Helen D, Lucille Knoche, and Walter Granville (Eds.)
Perhaps that publication is too obscure to access, but the article
included good color examples that were from BEADS, not soils, and
therefor very useful. While not so scientific as Munsell, it was
eminently useable. Now, I suppose it is possible that Karlis
Karklins and Co. have demonstrated conclusively the uselessness of
this scheme, but if so, it slipped by my attention.
Good luck.
Pat Martin
On Aug 25, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Kate and Silas wrote:
For the free, downloadable Munsell color convertor etc.
http://livingstonmanor.net/Munsell/File%20Downloads.htm
Includes the entire book of color/Munsell color space
Silas Hurry
HSMC
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From: Rita Eagle <[log in to unmask]>
> Hi Iain,
>
> Thanks very much for taking time to give me these suggestions.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rita Eagle
>
>
> On 8/24/08, Iain Stuart wrote:
>>
>> I think there have been extracts of the colour charts made for
>> specific
>> purposes. Mostly I have encountered them in the geo-sciences. In
>> Australia
>> there is a book which has pages of colours most likely to be found
>> when
>> describing Australian soils (mostly yellow-reds) but these would
>> not be
>> suitable I imagine for trade beads.
>>
>>
>>
>> There are various standards for paint colours which I have seen
>> used for
>> describing colours of transfer printed ceramics but again they are
>> costly
>> but as I recall a bit less than the Munsell book.
>>
>>
>>
>> There are various colour wheels used in interior design that might
>> be worth
>> looking into.
>>
>>
>>
>> yours
>>
>>
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