12.17.2007 | Posted by Ann Dee Allen

Art Seymour lampworking DVD

Beads and bead making are becoming more recognized for their cultural significance, leading to new projects that explore and preserve information about bead history. Three Northwestern University experts in anthropology, history, and media and technology have collaborated to produce a documentary on the glass bead trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. One part of the project is the newly released, award-winning DVD, Art Seymour: Solo Performance, which captures Art making chevron beads in his studio in Nevada. You can view the DVD at http://nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/screeenroom/feature_archives/nov2006feat.html.

Comments

  • JudyBj said:

    Glad to hear about the project on trade in glass beads.  I hope it will include mention of some of the world's earliest glass beads, used in decorating Ishtar Temple A at the site of Nuzi, in northern Iraq, dating to about 1400 BC. Numerous other glass and glazed terracotta artifacts were also found there.  For references, see my article, "How to Bury a Temple," in vol. 10 of the series, Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, entitled Nuzi at Seventy-Five, and edited by David I. Owen and Gernot Wilhelm (CDL Press; 1999) pp. 103-122.

    January 2, 2008 10:11 AM

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