11 Facts About Trade beads

Trade beads are beads that were used as a medium of barter within and amongst communities.

Trade beads were used to purchase African resources by early Europeans.

The Trade beads were integrated in Native American jewelry using various beadwork techniques.

Aggry Trade beads are a particular type of decorated glass bead from Ghana.

Archaeologists documented in 2022 that Trade beads manufactured in Europe continued to accompany exploration of Africa using Indigenous routes into the interior as recently as the late-nineteenth century.

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Trade beads are found in the United States and Canada, and throughout Latin America.

Large blue beads were favoured early in the trade although details of when European trade with native American Indians began remains elusive.

The dating and provenance has been challenged by other researchers who point out that such Trade beads were not made in Venice until the mid-sixteenth century and that an early seventeenth century French origin is possible.

Production of slave beads became so popular that literally tons of these beads were used for this purpose.

The beads traded were not of a set design, but were produced according to demand.

The ease of production of these Trade beads using methods employed by European artisans enabled exploitation via a speculative attack on this West African monetary system.