Spain at Mackinac? Adornment Artifacts From a Fur Trade Household

Author(s): Lynn Evans

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Frontier and Settlement Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Michilimackinac is well known as a French and British fur trade entrepôt in what is now northern Michigan. Analysis of personal adornment artifacts from a recently excavated fur trader's household revealed that the assemblage included some artifacts more commonly associated with the Spanish, jet beads and a fan stick fragment. Are these artifacts evidence for trade with the Spanish at St. Louis, or were the French or British commonly using these artifacts?

Cite this Record

Spain at Mackinac? Adornment Artifacts From a Fur Trade Household. Lynn Evans. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449077) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8449077

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Keywords

Culture
French-Canadian • Historic • Spanish

Material
Bone • jet

Site Name
Michilimackinac

Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex

Investigation Types
Collections Research

General
fan • Fur Trade • jet

Geographic Keywords
United States of America

Temporal Keywords
18th Century

Temporal Coverage

None: 1715 to ? (1781)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 204

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