Method of Registration

Abstract

When I started work on beads, the first task was to register over a thousand strings of them in the Petrie Collection. At that time, I did not know what I might need in the later stage of my work, let alone what other people in the field or museum my require for their purposes. The obvious course naturally resorted to is to follow some system or other with certain modifications. As stated by Beck, “to describe a bead fully it is necessary, to state its form, perforation, colour, material, and decoration” But for the registration of whole strings of beads, there are some other informations which should be recorded as well.