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The Construction And Utilisation Of Social Space On Board The Vasa (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen R Boyle.

The Vasa was designed to be an extension of the King’s court. This would mean that the court structure would be transferred to the Vasa itself when at sea with the King on board. Although a big ship for the time, transferring a full court system with all the accompanying entourage to the Vasa would lead to a very complicated social structure in a surprisingly small area. The Great Cabin, the officers cabin, the decks where the crew slept, ate and socialised as well as the hold where the ships...


A Door to Another World: Entering the Great Cabin on Vasa (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred Hocker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Expressions of Social Space and Identity: Interior Furnishings and Clothing from the Swedish Warship Vasa of 1628." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The great cabin on a capital warship has a unique legal status, as an embassy and seat of power. The king is ever present, whether on board or not. The space is designed to convey the majesty of the owner and to frame the power relationships between the occupant...


Essential Hardware: An Analysis of Vasa’s Rigging and Gun Tackle Blocks (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel F Howe.

Rigging blocks are essential to the operation of a large sailing vessel, yet little has been published on these vital pieces of hardware. Recent research and analysis of the rigging and gun tackle blocks found in association with the Swedish royal warship, Vasa, lost in Stockholm Harbor in 1628,has made possible a detailed study of this specialized equipment, its typology, nomenclature, historical development, physical mechanics, and its application aboard 17th century square-rigged ships....


An Examination Of Sanitation And Hygiene Habit Artifacts Found aboard Vasa: Health, Sanitation, and Life At Sea In Seventeenth-Century Sweden (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel R King.

Vasa was a 64-gun Swedish warship in the service of King Gustav II Adolf .  The vessel sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, taking at least 16 of the approximately 150 persons on board to the depths of Stockholm Harbor (Vasamuseet 2013; Vasa I 2006:36-55).  Amongst the cannon, figureheads, and skeletons are a collection of artifacts that can tell us how the crew lived, not just while aboard Vasa, but also ashore.  These artifacts include chamber pots, glass bottles, and other assorted health and...


Footprints on the Past: Preliminary Observations of the Footwear from Vasa (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D.A. Saguto.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Expressions of Social Space and Identity: Interior Furnishings and Clothing from the Swedish Warship Vasa of 1628." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Footwear preserves the physical imprint of the wearer, recording anthropometric data such as foot size, gait, and pathology. Prior to the 17th-century, it was also one of the first items of clothing produced in standardized sizes on an industrial scale. The Vasa...


From Fragments to Garments – Understanding the Vasa Textile Puzzle and the People on Board (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Silwerulv.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Expressions of Social Space and Identity: Interior Furnishings and Clothing from the Swedish Warship Vasa of 1628." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Each textile fragment in itself contains information about the raw material and the production of the fabric. In many cases there are traces of the tailoring process as well. But to learn more about the people on board the ship we also need to understand what...


History of the Timber Industry in Sweden and Women Supplying the Swedish Navy (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Carlhem.

Sweden has rich natural resources: timber, iron, copper, with established transport/trade routes, over land and water, from Viking times. Lightly populated-sufficient labor to extract these resources was a problem. Swedish timber was coveted due to slow growth rate when compared to other countries. Oak was valuable and protected by royal proclamation. The Thirty Years War meant the loss of half of the able-bodied men in Sweden. This caused an increase of women/widows taking on patriarchal roles...


Is There A Doctor On Board? Answering The Question Of Vasa's Barber Surgeon. (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel R King.

A Swedish researcher wrote in 2014 that a group of artifacts found on Vasa belonged to the ship's barber. These artifacts included, a whisk, wooden ladles, a wooden mortar and pestle, a grater, a beer tap, a pewter flask, and a stoneware jar.  The barber surgeon is perhaps the most important crew member a ship can have.  A ship's barber surgeon was responsible for the treatment of diseases and injuries while the vessel is at sea, at times having to act as surgeon, physician, and apothecary,...


Nålbinding Textiles from Vasa in a Wider Context (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsey M Howell Franklin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Expressions of Social Space and Identity: Interior Furnishings and Clothing from the Swedish Warship Vasa of 1628." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In addition to the woven textiles that make up the majority of the fragments in archaeological finds, there are other techniques which occur in particular regions and periods. Nålbinding, a single-needle technique which builds up a durable fabric through a...


Project Dress: An Overview of Working with the Textile Finds from the Vasa Collection (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karolina Pallin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Expressions of Social Space and Identity: Interior Furnishings and Clothing from the Swedish Warship Vasa of 1628." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Dress Project started in 2017 and after two years we have an idea of the size and scope of the collection, even if piecing together thousands of fragments after 333 years underwater has its challenges, and building a methodology for the documentation was a...


A Room within a Room: The Great Cabin on Vasa (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Elgar.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Expressions of Social Space and Identity: Interior Furnishings and Clothing from the Swedish Warship Vasa of 1628." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The interior of the great cabin was a completely separate layer, comprising panelling, a coffered ceiling, and floor, of which over 90% survives. It covered the structural elements of the hull to give the impression of a room in the royal palace, a building...


Round Pegs and Square Holes: The Casks from Vasa. (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John E Ratcliffe.

The casks from Vasa exhibit features infrequently observed in other collections of archaeological cooperage, including distinctive square holes at their midsections, heads that are made of only two to four edge-joined pieces, and evenly spaced bands of hoops. In contrast, Iberian and French cooperage typically exhibits exclusively circular bungholes, heads made of five or six pieces reinforced with a bar, and hoops clustered at opposite ends of the cask. The square-holed Vasa casks were made of...


The Swedish Sailor’s Table (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Gandulla.

With the raising of the Vasa came thousands of artifacts, including various examples of treenware, or wooden tableware. From the collection it is clear: although the sailors aboard did not actually have time to eat a meal on that fateful first cruise, they were indeed equipped to do so.  There are 174 artifacts in Vasa’s treenware collection, that represent at least 27 different styles in both carved and turned woodcraft technology. This paper offers a detailed description and accounting of each...


Vestis Virum Fecit: Everyday Clothes for Princes and Paupers (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cecilia Aneer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Expressions of Social Space and Identity: Interior Furnishings and Clothing from the Swedish Warship Vasa of 1628." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Clothing is the most common possession available for the expression of identity, but well contextualized material from the broader strata of society is rare for the early modern period. What we largely know is how elites dressed on special occasions, as this is...


The Whipstaff Mascaron (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karolina Pallin. Leticia Pinheiro Lima.

When Vasa was built, it was decorated with numerous sculptures that presented ideas and beliefs on the importance of Sweden and the person of the King. One of the more intriguing, but until today little researched sculptures is the mascaron that sits above the bearings for the ship’s whipstaff. From the grotesque mouth of the sculpture, the whipstaff protrudes like a 4-meter-long tongue. Based on the intricate nature of the carving, and its unique location, the whipstaff mascaron possesses a...