Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean, 1500-1800 Volume 2: Portable Personal Possessions

by DEAGAN, KATHLEEN

• ISBN13: 9781588340351
• ISBN10: 158834035X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-17
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books

Summary

This long-awaited follow-up to Deagan's first volume on ceramics, glassware, and beads focuses on the portable personal objects owned and used by the residents of Spanish colonial America. These objects are not only of Spanish origin; the collection includes many English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, and American pieces as well. Deagan not only provides an authoritative source of identification for these items but also draws extensively on colonial documents, travel accounts, paintings, and museum collections, as well as other contemporary sources to suggest specific functions of the items and the meanings they held for the people who used them. She documents and demonstrates how the objects were made and exchanged in the Americas, and explores how they embody Hispanic cultural identities, attitudes, and belief systems.

Author Biography

KATHLEEN DEAGAN is a curator of archaeology and professor of anthropology at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xxi
Acknowledgements	xxiii
Part 1. Contexts
Scale, Context, and Meaning in Material Culture Studies	3	(4)
Sites and Samples	7	(17)
Terrestrial Sites	7	(12)
Multicomponent Sites	19	(1)
Marine Sites	20	(4)
Politics, Economy, and the Flow of Material Culture in the Spanish Colonies	24	(13)
European Goods in the Spanish Americas	24	(1)
Transatlantic Commerce and the Carrera de Indias	24	(3)
Origins of Carrera Merchandise	27	(1)
The Asiento	27	(1)
Problems with the Carrera	28	(1)
Rescate: Contraband Foreign Trade in the Caribbean	28	(1)
The Seventeenth-Century Depression	29	(1)
The Eighteenth Century: Poltics, Conflict, and Economic Reform	30	(1)
Spanish-American Commodity Production	31	(2)
Intercolonial Trade	33	(1)
Spanish-American Social Patterns and Their Material Correlates	34	(3)
Part 2. Religion, Ritual, and Adornment
Religious Items	37	(50)
Religious Material Culture	38	(3)
Devotional Medals	41	(5)
Devotional Medals in Spanish Colonial Sites	46	(8)
Personal Crosses and Crucifixes	54	(11)
Rosaries	65	(7)
Veneras and Religious Pendants	72	(6)
Reliquaries	78	(3)
Seals and Stamps	81	(2)
Rings	83	(1)
Columns	84	(1)
Copper-Alloy Stars	84	(3)
Amulets and Magical Items	87	(19)
Amulet Use in Spain	89	(4)
Materials with Amuletic Properties	93	(2)
Forms of Amulets	95	(10)
Summary	105	(1)
Popular Jewelry	106	(32)
Jewelry in Colonial-Era Spain	107	(2)
Popular Jewelry in the Spanish Colonies	109	(13)
Finger Rings	122	(4)
Earrings	126	(4)
Pendants and Necklaces	130	(4)
Bracelets	134	(2)
Hair Ornaments	136	(2)
Bells	138	(19)
Bells in the Spanish Colonies	139	(1)
Bells as Amulets	140	(2)
Rumbler Bells: Varieties and Characteristics	142	(7)
Open Bells	149	(5)
Summary	154	(3)
Part 3. Clothing
Clothing Fasteners and Ornaments	157	(23)
Buttons	157	(17)
Other Clothing Fasteners	174	(2)
Clothing Ornamentation	176	(4)
Buckles, Strap Ends, and Belt Hooks	180	(13)
Clothing Buckles	180	(5)
Armor Buckles	185	(2)
Spur Buckles	187	(2)
Harness and Baldric Buckles	189	(2)
Strap Tips	191	(1)
Belt Hooks	192	(1)
Sewing Equipment	193	(22)
Pins	193	(2)
Needles and Needle Cases	195	(2)
Thimbles and Thimble Rings	197	(9)
Scissors and Shears	206	(3)
Lace-making Equipment	209	(6)
Part 4. Personal Items and Accessories
Items of Comfort and Grooming	215	(21)
Fans	215	(5)
Umbrellas and Parasols	220	(2)
Eyeglasses	222	(2)
Combs	224	(4)
Wigs and Wig Curlers	228	(1)
Hairbrushes	228	(2)
Toothpicks and Toothbrushes	230	(4)
Razors	234	(2)
Coins and Weights	236	(32)
Denominations, Sizes, and Values of Spanish Colonial Coins	236	(3)
Coin Production and Technology	239	(1)
The Spanish American Mints	239	(4)
Archaeologically Recovered Coins from Old World Mints	243	(13)
Summary	256	(1)
Jetons	257	(2)
Weights	259	(5)
Scales	264	(4)
Personal Firearms	268	(23)
Firearms during the Age of Exploration	268	(2)
Matchlocks	270	(3)
Wheel Locks	273	(2)
Snaphaunce Locks, Doglocks, and Flintlocks	275	(1)
Miquelet Locks	276	(3)
Ripoll Miquelet Pistols	279	(1)
Flintlocks	280	(1)
The French, or ``a la Francesa,'' Lock	281	(3)
Firearm Accessories	284	(7)
Pastimes	291	(22)
Games and Gambling	291	(7)
Children's Games and Toys	298	(3)
Noisemakers and Music	301	(3)
Reading and Writing	304	(6)
Tobacco Use	310	(3)
Glossary	313	(6)
References	319	(45)
Index	364