EXTREMELY RARE! Ca. 1000 CE NATIVE AMERICAN ROLLED COPPER BEADSWEARABLE STRAND

WEARABLE STRAND EARLY NATIVE AMERICAN ROLLED COPPER BEADS. Note: These are not Trade beads. They are made by Native Americans from early finds of. Raw copper, pre-dating the arrival of the White Man. Reportedly found in Wisconsin, these are the finest example. Of this rare type of early Native American rolled copper beads. Usually, when they turn up, they are few in number and. Far too deteriorated to string as a wearable necklace. Description: 20 inches (doubled), the necklace has two kinds of copper beads. Rolled tubular, and small copper discs. They are from the same find and epoch. The separating white beads are early 19th century glass trade beads. The clasp is gold filled. There are 19 tubular beads ranging in length from 1 to 2 inches. Their condition, by and large, is excellent. My opinion, based on archeological finds of similar types. Notably, the Milwaukee Public Museum, which has. Several similar beads not a necklace! Dates them much earlier, to the late Archaic period, about 1,500 BCE. One archeologist has this to say: These (similar) beads appear. To have been made using the cold-hammer technique, made of raw. Pieces of copper hammered into thin sheets then rolled into. These prehistoric copper beads are extremely rare. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Native American: US\Pre-1600\Artifacts”. The seller is “raph_donn” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.