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" ... LW: As best I can tell, like so many other aspects of Carnival, the throwing of beads started as one person’s material joke—a carnival king threw fake strands of gems and rings to his “loyal subjects” sometime in the 1890s, and by the early 1920s, one of the Krewes, probably Rex, started as a group regularly throwing strands of glass Czech beads. The throws were popular, and others quickly copied. By the 1930s and 1940s, there is film footage where you can see maskers throwing beads from sacks. By the 1950s, floats were being redesigned to hold many more beads. You could say that this kind of celebrating by giving away things isn’t that different from the peoples of the Pacific Northwest holding potlatches or the Romans giving big feasts. ... "