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Plate IVA NT 634: Korean National Treasure 634. a) Hypothetical restringing of the carnelian, jasper, and rock crystal beads and the carnelian comma-shaped pendant (gogok) found with NT 634; b) face and bird canes, with the face distorted toward the perforation; c) bird and flowering-tree canes; d) face and bird canes, with the bird cane cut off at the perforation (photos by J. Lankton; courtesy of Gyeongju National Museum). Plate IVB NT 634: Jatim beads found with 5th/6th-century Korean (Silla) burials. The largest bead is 22.7 mm in diameter. a) Small green and yellow pelangi bead from a royal tomb at Noseo-ri, Gyeongju; b-1) two Jatim millefiori mosaic beads from the Sikrichong tomb in Gyeongju (in both cases, the mosaic canes are distorted toward only one end of the perforation); g-i) Jatim millefiori mosaic bead from Inwangdong, Gyeongju, with a star pattern relatively common on Jatim beads (as with the two beads above, the cane distortion is toward only one end of the bead (courtesy of National Museum of Korea [a-f] and Yeungnam University Museum [g-i]). Plate VA NT 634: Jatim face bead in the Liese Collection at the Bead Museum, Glendale, Arizona. a-b) Side views showing mirror-image faces; c-d) side views with complete and distorted bird canes; e-f) end views showing cane distortion toward the perforation. Plate VB Mewar: Carnelian (left) and turquoise (right) beads from Chalcolithic Gilund, India (photo: A.K. Kanungo).
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