The Guido Award

In 1995 the Bead Study Trust received a very generous bequest from the bead researcher Peggy Guido (1912-1994) to further “suitable (bead-related) research abroad”. These terms therefore exclude the study of beads within a country by a resident of that country, but are otherwise open to all applicants irrespective of age, gender or nationality. Applications may include travel grants or contributions to publications (if this involves research outside one’s own country). However as the sums are limited, these awards usually act as “seed” funding rather than supporting an entire research project. It is expected that recipients of a Guido Award submit a short report suitable for publication in the Newsletter.

Applications

To download an application form in pdf format click here. Application forms are also circulated annually with the Newsletter.

Applications should be made each year by 31st October to the Chair of the Bead Study Trust: Dr St J. Simpson, c/o Department of the Middle East, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG. These are circulated for refereeing and applicants will be notified of the results by 31st January.

Potential applicants should note that they must be a current subscriber to the Bead Study Trust Newsletter.

Past Guido Awardees

1996/97 1997/98 1998/99 1999/2000 2000/2001 2001/2002 2002/2003 2003/2004 2005/2006 2007/2008

1996/97

Peter J. FRANCIS: Beads of Northern India
See: ‘Beads of Northern India’, BSTN 34 (winter 1999), 6-8.

Heidi MUNAN: Research on Melanau beads
See: ‘Research on Melanau beads’, BSTN 34 (winter 1999), 8-11.

Helen HUGHES-BROCK: Photographic recording of beads from the ‘House of Idols’, Mycenae
See: BSTN 32 (winter 1998/99), 13.

1997/98

Dr Kishor K. BASA: Beads of Bangladesh and West Bengal, South Asia: a comparative study
See: ‘Bead studies in Bangladesh’, BSTN 32 (winter 1998/99), 13.

Robert THEUNISSEN: Origins and Social Function of Iron-Age Agate and Carnelian Ornaments found in South-east Asia: a combined typological, technological and geo-chemical analysis.
See: ‘Agate and carnelian ornaments from Noen U-Loke, northeast Thailand: some thoughts on their social function and “value” ’, BSTN 32 (winter 1998/99), 8-11.

1998/99

Cecilia BRAGHIN: Archaeological Context of Ancient Chinese Beads (from Neolithic to Eastern Zhou period, 3000–300 BC)
See: ‘Beads and related materials in early China’, BSTN 35 (spring 2000), 6-7.

Andy TOWLE: The Chemical Characterisation of the Etruscan Glass Industry
See: ‘Electronic scanning: an alternative to photographing glass beads and other small archaeological artefacts’, BSTN 33 (spring 1999), 4-5; ‘Report of work on glass and glass artefacts in northern Italy during the late 2nd and early 1st millennium BC’, BSTN 33 (spring 1999), 15-16.

Dr A. MASTYKOVA: Bead collections of the 5th and 6th centuries from the middle Danube at Brno

Dr Michele CASANOVA: A comparative analysis of beaded jewellery from Ur and Sarazm

Noemie ARAZI: Beads from Mali

1999/2000

Andy TOWLE: Scientific Analysis of Glass Artefacts from Pre-Roman Iron Age Italy

Dr Sunil GUPTA: Study of Late Prehistoric Beads in Thailand with special reference to Indo-Pacific Beads
See: ‘Beads from Iron Age Ban Chiang and Dvaravati Sites, Thailand' BSTN 39 (spring 2002), 3-7.

2000/2001

Bérénice BELLINA: Excavation of Mahurjari, a stone bead proto/early historical manufacturing centre.
See: Ian Glover and Bérénice Bellina, ‘Alkaline etched beads in Southeast Asia’, Ornaments from the Past: Bead Studies after Beck (Glover, I.C., Hughes Brock, H. and Henderson, J., eds), 92-107. Bangkok 2003.

Barbie CAMPBELL COLE: Comprehensive Survey of “Etched” Beads in Burma
See: ‘The Sacred Pumtek’, BSTN 40 (autumn 2002), 7-10; ‘Ancient hard stone beads and seals in Myanmar’, Ornaments from the Past: Bead Studies after Beck (Glover, I.C., Hughes Brock, H. and Henderson, J., eds), 118-33. Bangkok 2003.

2001/2002

Dr Jeffrey M. MITCHEM: Developing a Descriptive Typology for the Beads of Northern Jordan
See: paper given to the Society of Bead Researchers, Santa Fe, 9 March 2002: abstract in BSTN 39 (spring 2002), 9.

Kalliopi NIKITA: Mycenaean Glass Working: materials, techniques and instruments for making glass beads
See: ‘A review of the chemical analyses of glass and faience beads in the Bronze Age Aegean’, BSTN 42 (autumn 2001), 4-9; ‘Mycenaean Beads: technology, forms and function’, Ornaments from the Past: Bead Studies after Beck (Glover, I.C., Hughes Brock, H. and Henderson, J., eds), 23-37. Bangkok 2003.

2002/2003

Dr Birte BRUGMANN: Glass Beads from Anglo-Saxon Graves. A Study on the Provenance and Chronology of Glass Beads from Anglo-Saxon Graves Based on Visual Examination
See: ‘Glass beads from early Anglo-Saxon graves’, BSTN 41 (spring), 6-8; Glass Beads from Anglo-Saxon Graves: A Study on the Provenance and Chronology of Glass Beads from Anglo-Saxon Graves, Based on Visual Examination (Oxbow Books, 2004); Beads from Anglo-Saxon Graves: Online Database

Professor Julia J. CHTCHAPOVA: Glass Beads of the Cemetery Belbek IV

John HAIGH: An investigation of evidence for the pre-oral history of bauxite bead-making in and around Abompe, Ashante-Akim, Ghana

Dr Kalliopi NIKITA: Vitreous beads in Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Sparta