Calico Buttons (Other Keyword)

1-1 (1 Record)

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part V: Buttons As Closures, Buttons AS Decoration: a Nineteenth Century Example From Fort Union (1986)

DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Hunt, Jr..

Between 1829-1865, Fort Union served as the administrative center of the Upper Missouri Outfit of the American Fur Company. After becoming a National Historic Site in 1966, the U.S. National Park Service sponsored four excavations there. Among the thousands of objects recovered were several hundred buttons. In the past, archeologists have been content to describe such mundane without attempting to analyze artifacts; e.g., place them within a social and functional contexts. This paper...