Trade Bead Currency
Those two items, ironically, were largely luxury goods: making westward expansion and trade a fashion-driven enterprise!
Trade Bead Hanks
Trade beads were popular currency in early western expansion, and are still sought after today.
Trade Entwined
12 x 36” Watercolor on Clayboard This profusion of glass trade beads is not only pleasing to look at, but intriguing to contemplate. Mankind has always bartered; as one area of the world had different resources and technologies that the other wanted. Such was so with the early trading of goods in American westward expansion. The trade and inevitable merging …
Trade Bead Fashion Exchange
Beaver pelts were plentiful to the Native Americans at that time, and they desired items which they did not have the resources or technology to produce.