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Carnelian bead
A Carnelian bead, likely from Camby, India, found with the remains of a shaman on the Newton Plantation in Barbados.

This Carnelian bead, likely from Camby, India, was found with the remains of a shaman on the Newton Plantation in Barbados. Newton has the largest known and excavated communal slave burial ground located on a plantation in the Western Hemisphere.

Origin:
Camby, India (probably)
Item type:
Bead

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