The Private Side of Victorian Mourning Practices in 19th-century New England: The Cole’s Hill Memorial Cache
Author(s): Nadia Waski; Victoria A Cacchione
Year: 2018
Summary
Excavated from Cole’s Hill in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts, a cache comprising of a collection of 19th century personal adornment artifacts, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and organic materials, potentially provides an alternative view of mourning and memorialization practices in Victorian-era New England. The associated artifacts possess characteristics indicative of Victorian mourning symbols and material types. However, no other current examples of this mourning practice exist in the historical and archaeological records. Thus, this paper will explore how this discovery serves as a way to understand the private side of the traditionally public mourning practices of the Victorian-era.
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The Private Side of Victorian Mourning Practices in 19th-century New England: The Cole’s Hill Memorial Cache. Nadia Waski, Victoria A Cacchione. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441636)
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Keywords
General
Memorialization
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Mourning
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personal adornment
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 350