Seventeenth-Century Glass Trade Beads from La Salle’s Fort St. Louis and the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9394658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John A Walthall (Illinois State Museum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 257-281 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0146-1109 • E-ISSN: 2327-4271 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/26599922 |
| OpenAlex | W4313057179 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Glass trade beads are described here from two seventeenth-century sites located in the upper Illinois Valley, La Salle’s 1682–1691 Fort St. Louis and the nearby Grand Village of the Kaskaskia, destroyed during an Iroquois raid in 1680. Simple monochrome drawn beads characterize both bead assemblages and each contains significant percentages of very small (<2 mm) and small (2–4 mm) size beads. Dominant colors are blue, white, and black. Turquoise-blue beads were a staple of the French trade at this time in the Illinois Country, particularly in transactions involving La Salle and his successors based at Fort St. Louis. Comparative treatment provided as part of this research indicates that there are significant similarities between the bead assemblage from Fort St. Louis and the beads recovered from the 1686 wreck of La Salle’s ship Belle in Matagorda Bay off the Texas coast
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Assemblage (archaeology · Bay · Bead · Geography · Monochrome · White (mutation · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and Natural History · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |