[Bonetools] spacers and beads

[François Poplin]

The next question is the size of beads, mainly their diameter.

I have some trouble to work and search as I would like these days ; 
among these difficulties, both librairies of the Sorbonne and the 
Collège de France are removing... 3 hours lost/wasted. I went to the 
Institut du Monde arabe in order to find some spacers for you. Maybe you 
can reach /Traditional Jewelry of India/, Thames and Hudson ed., several 
editions. Two very fine examples from Nagaland p. 66-67, one with 8 
holes, another with 8 and 11.

What I want to stress is that the width of spacers is very commonly the 
same as the diameter of beads ; easy to understand : it would be 
unsuitable to have them on the skin protruding as rails of railway : it 
must be as in a level crossing (U. S. grade crossing).

Then, what is the usual size/diameter of beads in the concerned/involved 
cultures, is the question.

On p. 84 of the joint pdf, kindly sent by Simon Davis, you have a an 
example of spacer made of vulture ulna (why not bearded /Gypaetus 
barbatus/, as very usual for pastoral flutes in recent Greece ?). You 
could imagine that the beads themselves were made out of the same kind 
on bone - the same diameter, I mean - but there is not enough bones for 
that in the skeleton.

The largest side of bone wear the carving, the opposite was hidden, 
laying on the skin/body or things like that ; there is a rather strong 
tendancy in islamic/arabic tradition to/for "osteoglyphy"/"osteography" 
(writing, carving of bones, I don't enter the details).

The piece is broken both on a hole and one of the semi-annular groves 
(not very young people may remember the medicinal ampoules of glass and 
the little saw to open them...). You may imagine with few risks that it 
went further at least for another hole (half + one). There is an idea of 
symmetry, reasonnably moderated by the lesser development/witdth at this 
end.

That's all what a can do for today.



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Sujet: 	Re: tiré à part
Date : 	Fri, 8 Mar 2013 08:07:34 +0000
De : 	Simon Davis <simonjmdavis at gmail.com>
Pour : 	François Poplin <poplin at mnhn.fr>



peut-etre c'est ça?
davis

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There were mammals, and finally men,
      Who ruled for a while
      In belligerent style,
And then there was nothing again
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