Ceramic Motifs (Other Keyword)

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Domesticity Through Decoration: An Analysis of Early 19th-Century Ceramic Decorative Motifs from the Boston-Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA. (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lissa Herzing.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "An Archaeology Of Freedom: Exploring 19th-Century Black Communities And Households In New England." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Boston’s of Nantucket, a family of African and Native American descent, greatly impacted the development of the free black community of New Guinea during the late 18th-19th centuries. During the 1820s-1830s, Mary Boston-Douglass, a woman who married into the Boston family,...

Talking With Transfer-Printed Tea Cups: An Examination Of Early 19th-Century Domesticity Through Ceramic Pattern Symbolism And Vessel Forms From The Boston-Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA. (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lissa J. Herzing.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Studies of Material Culture (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early 19th-century, ideologies of womanhood and domesticity were beginning to solidify in the mainstream media, in both black and white communities in New England, prescribing the roles of women. However, the ways women interpreted these ideologies in their daily lives likely differed and was complicated by...