|
|
Abalone pearls, 55, 78, 148, 280,
291,351. 414 Abbas the Great, 455 Abdul Aziz, 421
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 164,166 Aboriginal use of pearls, 485 —
513 Abortive ova theory, 42 Abraham and Sarah, 7 Accidents to divers, 117, 138,
144,
197, 203, 208, 247, 249 Acid stains, 376 Acosta, José de, 232 Aden,
Arabia, 37, 142 Aden, Gulf of, 80, 140 Adirondack, New York, 266 Adour
River, France, 171 Adrian, Pope, 313 Africa, 65, 140, 153—J56 Age of mollusks, 74. 108f 171 Ago Bay, Japan, 292 Aitken, Ε. Η., 133 Alabama, 492, 493 Alasmodon arcuata, 73
margaritifera,
281 Albertus Magnus, 311 Alexander the Great, 319 Alexander VI, 24
Alexander Severus, 10 Alexandra, Queen, 165, 418
(plate),
438 Alexandria, 320 Alexandria shell, 69 Alfonso X, 311 Alfred the
Great, 414 Algonquin Indians, 486 America, 225 — 282, 294 America,
Prehistoric, 23, 485-
512 American Museum of Natural
History, 266, 467 Amsterdam, Diamond Merchants
of, 325 Anania of Shiraz, 329 Ancients, Pearls among the, 3 —
12
Anglesey,
Marquis of, 479 Angoulême, Duchess of, 170 Anhalt-Dessau, Duchess of,
476 Anjou, Duke of, 425 Annan River, Scotland, 164 Anne de Bretagne,
436 Anne de France, Duchess, 435 Anodonta cygnea, 42, 168 Antwerp,
Chamber of Commerce
of,
327 Apparatus of capture, 166, 181, 268 — 270. See Dredges,
Scaphanders, Apple River, Wisconsin, 262 Aqualia jewels, 479 Aqua
perlata, 311 Archangel, Russia, 181, 184 Areca-nut, 310
|
Arethusa necklace, 405
Aristotle, 95
Arizona, 510
Arkansas, 259, 263, 264, 270,
276,
361 Arkansas River, 263, 264 Arlington, Tenn., 263 Arnobio, Cleandro,
344 Arnold» Sir Edwin, 41, 85 Arthurian legends, 304 Artificial pearls,
41. 285—293 Aru Islands, 206, 220 Ashburnham missal, 17 Assyria, Pearls
in, 6, 404 Atax ypsilophorus, 43 Atharvaveda, 4, 301 Athens National
Museum, 405 At water, Caleb, 500 Auction of oysters, 120 Auction of
pearls, 470—472,
477-481 Augsburg, Germany, 320 Australia, 30, 58, 65, 68, 199 —
212, 291, 294, 466 Austria, Fisheries of, 178—179 Austrian Schatzkammer, 472 —
474. Awabi. See Abalone. Aztecs, Pearls among the, 23
Bacon, Francis, 313
Baden, Germany, 177
Baegert, Jacob, 244
Bagdad, 88, 98, 335» 411
Bagge, J. P., 287
Bahama Islands, 278
Bahrein Islands, 85, 88—90
Balapur, India, 133
Baldknob, Arkansas, 276
Banda, 221
Banks, Edgar J., 5
Bann River, Ireland, 165
Bantam Lake, Conn., 266
Bapst pearls, 465
Barbot, Charles, 337» 390
Baroda, Gaikwar of, 460
Baroque pearls, 30» 31. 59» 265,
272, 353, 359, 464, 475, 476 Baroque pearls, Values of, 337,
340,
343, 355 Barthema, Lodovico, 86 Base value for pearls, 330—333 Basilica
of St. Mark, 17, 59 Bassein Coast, India, 139 Bath, Marquis of, 355
Batthyani, Count Louis, 467
" Countess Louis, 434
Bavaria, 171—173, 294 Bazaruto Islands, 153, 156 Beads, 403, 497, 498, 508 Beckmann, Johann, 287 Bede, 160
Bell, Robert Ν., 492 Benjamin of Tudela, 37, 86
|
Benzoni, Girolamo, 231 Berri, Duc de, 426 Beuth-Schinkel Museum, Char-
lottenburg, 421 Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris,
407, 425, 428, 436 Biedma, Louis Hernandez de,
253, 257 Bird's-eye pearls, 56, 353 Birdwood, Sir George, 319 Birmingham, Jewelers' and
Goldsmiths' Association of, 327 Blackmore, H. P., 490 Blackmore Museum, 490, 500 Black pearls, 29, 60, 241, 349,
355. 376t 467, 476 Black River, Arkansas, 264, 273 Black Rock, Arkansas, 264, 276 Bleaching pearls, 377, 396 Blister pearls, 58, 353 Blue-point shell, 72 Boats, .91, 112, 136, 141, 166,
205,
218, 234 Bober River, Germany, 175 Bohemia, Austria, 178 Bohemian
pearls, 433, 434 Bolchow, H. W. F., 478 Bolivia, 511 Bologna treatise
of 1791, 331,
338, 342, 343 Bombay, 88, 89, 98, 156, 347,
354» 357 Bombay Presidency, 132 Bombay shell, 69, 143 Boncza, Mile. Wanda de, 479 Boot, Anselmus de, 40, 311, 331,
338, 343» 382, 455 Bordeaux, Austin de, 459 Borneo, 221, 297 Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
11, 12, 307 Bouchon-Brandely, G., 193, 195,1
290 Bourbon, Duchess of, 348 Bouton, Louis, 291 Bouton pearls, 56, 57, 352. See
Button pearls Bracelets, 474 Brazil, 282
Breeding pearls, 296—298 Bremond, Gabriele, 411 Brhatsamhita of Varâhamihira,
334
Bridal presents, Pearls as, 170 Brinton, D. G., 494 Bristow, Samuel G.,
494 British Honduras, 511 British Isles, 11, 159—168 British Museum,
11, 20, 67, 405,
414, 510 Brooch, 471 Broome, Australia, 205 Brown, Barnum, 511 Browning, Robert, 303
|
|
