This turquoise glass trade bead was collected during the 1930s by the University of Nebraska, who were then excavating in Kansas at the Fanning site. In 1987, the bead was donated to the Kansas Historical Society. This bead exhibits what is called glass disease or bead disease, meaning that the chemical breakdown of the glass is leaving a white crusty deposit. The Fanning site is an early Contact Period Kansa village site in Doniphan county.