They were used as trade beads and are called Yellow Heart or Cornaline D'Aleppo beads because of the yellow centre in a russet-red bead, or Hudson's Bay beads. Similar beads were traded in Africa ...

Glass beads were a key component of trade between Europeans and Indigenous Americans during early interactions between the two continents. One of the key actors in these networks was the Wendat ...

They came from Langholm, and may have belonged to James Irving, a ship's captain in the slave trade from Liverpool.These decorative glass beads were used to ease the passage of traders mainly ...