Most of the beads found while excavating the 17th-century Spanish mission of Saint Catherines have been Venetian in origin, such as the cobalt seed bead (top row, left), of which 20,905 more were discovered.

But some more unique specimens have been unearthed, like the watermelon-shaped blue-green bead from China (top row, second from left), the gilded oval glass bead from Spain (top middle), or the five-layer chevron compound bead from the Netherlands (bottom row, left).

All in all, beads of apparent Chinese, Bohemian, Indian, and Baltic origin have been found on the island off the Georgia coast.