Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part II: Food Related Materials

Author(s): William J. Hunt, Jr.

Year: 1986

Summary

National Park Service archaeological excavations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site from 1968 through 1972. Although a preliminary report describing the extent and nature of the excavations was produced shortly after the close of each season's fieldwork, until recently the extensive collection of artifacts and other materials recovered during that work has remained largely unanalyzed and unreported for want of sufficient funding.

A systematic effort to analyze and report all classes of material in the Fort Union collection was initiated in 1978 under the direction of Dick Ping Hsu with assistance from Leslie A. Perry. When Hsu transferred from the Midwest Archeological Center in 1981 and Perry left the National Park Service in 1982, this work was continued by William J. Hunt, Jr. These efforts have resulted in a series of manuscript reports, each focusing on a particular aspect of the 1968-1972 work at Fort Union. The series, entitled "Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports," consists of a volume (Part I) by Hunt which critically assesses the fieldwork accomplished during the four seasons of work at the site; four volumes, with sections authored by Hunt or Perry or both, which describe the food-related artifacts (Part II); personal and recreational materials (Part III); the firearms, trapping and fishing equipment (Part IV); and the buttons (Part V) recovered from the site. Another volume (Part VI), by Carole A. Angus and Carl R. Falk, summarizes information about the vertebrate faunal remains from the Fort Union excavations. As more classes of material in this large and important collection are analyzed, more descriptive reports will be completed in this series.

This report is Part II of the series.

Cite this Record

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part II: Food Related Materials. William J. Hunt, Jr.. Material Culture Reports. Lincoln, Nebraska: Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. 1986 ( tDAR id: 92366) ; doi:10.6067/XCV80Z7301

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Keywords

Culture
Euroamerican • Historic • Historic Native American • Metis

Material
Ceramic • Glass • Metal

Site Name
32WI17 • Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Site Type
Communal / Public Structure • Domestic Structures • Historic Communal / Public Structure • Military Structure • Non-Domestic Structures • Trading Post

Investigation Types
Collections Research

General
Albany Slip • Bordeaux Shape • Burgundy Shape • Carboys • Condiments • Cutlery • Demijohn • Flint Glazed • Food • Fort • Historic Site • Hole-And-Cap Can • Material Culture • Medicine Bottles • Medicine Objects • Pastorius Schultz and Company • Pearlware • Redware • Rhine Shape • Salt Glazed • Stoneware • Tin Can • Trading Post • Utensils • Vented Open-Lid Can • Vitreous Glaze • Whiteware • Yellow Glazed • Yellowware Show More

Geographic Keywords
Williams County, North Dakota

Temporal Keywords
19th Century • Historic

Spatial Coverage

min long: -104.073; min lat: 47.978 ; max long: -104.006; max lat: 48.025 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): W. Hunt; L. Perry

Sponsor(s): Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service

Record Identifiers

NADB document id number(s): 2000900

NADB citation id number(s): 000000147533

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