Glass bead making in Nigeria | |||||
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In the twentieth century, Ife bead technology included shaping and drilling recycled glass and beads (lapidary technique) or melting powdered glass (Fagg and Willett 1962:366; Adeduntan 1985, Eluyemi 1987). Igbo Olokun has long been a source of glass for reuse. The evidence suggests that Igbo Olokun has been, extraordinarily, the site of activities related to glass bead production for almost a thousand years, providing a unique window on the history of glass in West Africa and more widely. Its significance was considerably augmented by the recognition that the composition of the main glass type identified at Ife is unique to southwestern Nigeria and therefore likely the product of a local primary glassmaking industry, possibly in or near Ile-Ife itself...
...landmark article, Lankton
et al. (2006) recognized HLHA glass as unique to southwestern Nigeria.
https://www.academia.edu/33560273/Ife_and_Igbo_Olokun_in_the_history_of_glass_in_West_Africa