PINEY HOLLOW TIMELINE GALLERY
Beads were a form of personal adornment long before the invention of time. Shells, bone and stone found a place to represent the wishes, the superstition the personality and the taste of the person who wore them. Technology, from laborious stone drilling to the processing of glass and metallurgy, has found its place in human progress.
The Piney Hollow Time Line Bead Gallery demonstrates this sense of time in a linear display of adornment through the ages. From shells and bone and the earliest batik treatment on stone to the fine hand-lamp work and new media in use today. Various cultural styles including ,
Southwest Native American other parts of North America, China, Italy, Africa, Latin and South America are displayed in the gallery room along with an historical bead chart demonstrating the history of these ever-present items of style Piney Hollow has acquired an exquisite bead collection from C Richard LeRoy. Featured in the cover article of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS (May 1971), the LeRoy collection was the seed from which Piney Hollow developed the gallery dedicated to the time line of beads, dating from prehistory to the present.
Additional material in this extensive inventory led to the development of our line of Collectible Beads
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