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Todd Reck <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:19:27 -0500
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A few beads similar to the ones you describe have been found at Fort
Michilimackinac (1715-1781).  They are described with photographs on pages
102 and 104 in:
        Stone, Lyle
                1974   Fort Michilimackinac 1715-1781:  An Archaeological
                       Perspective on the Revolutionary Frontier.
                       Anthropological Series, Vol. 2. Michigan State
                       University, East Lansing, in cooperation with
                       Mackinac Island State Park Commission
 
 
 
 
Todd M. Reck
Department of Archaeology
Boston University
675 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
 
 
 
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Judy Bense wrote:
 
> In tight Early Spanish colonial context (1698-1719) at a frontier presidio
> in Pensacola, Florida, on and under the floor of a church which is crowded
> with burials,  we have found several very rare glass disk beads that are
> clasified as Man-on-the-Moon or WIIIc by Fogelman 1991 using the Kidd and
> Kidd system.  They are blue, flat, and have the moon and stars in gold
> applique on them.
>
> I know this bead type is very rare, especially in the Southeast.  Has anyone
> found them elsewhere, and if so, what was their context?
>
> I have attached a .jpg file with a digital image of 3 of the beads.
>

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