Over 3000 strings of beads in The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, indexed by Xia Nai, one of China's leading archaeologists
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You can read more about the bead index in a piece from curator Kristin A. Phelps, or read curator Stephen Quirke's short biography of Xia Nai.
Shuoting Zhang and Daniel Takacs have produced a concordance of Xia Nai and UC numbers.
We are very grateful to the staff, volunteers and students who have contributed to making the Xia Nai archive resource publically available: Sam Washington, Daniel Takacs, Kristin Phelps, Shuoting Zhang and Marwa Helmy.