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CHAPTER FOUR:
OVERVIEW OF THE MULTI-ETHNIC BALLAST POINT COMMUNITY ON POINT LOMA BETWEEN 1846 AND 1900 (continued)

rice bowl
Figure 12: Chinese Bamboo-style rice bowl, 1850-1930. From a trash pit near Ballast Point Whaling Company warehouse site (SDi-12,000). This style of rice bowl was common with overseas Chinese immigrants and sojourners in many 19th and 20th century Chinese communities in California. It was found with fish bone, wild bird eggs, English ceramics, cut abalone and brass pieces, bottle fragments and other Chinese ceramic containers. Photograph by John Wright, No. P:97-3823; copyright by Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.

bowl
Figure 13: Chinese Double Happiness-style bowl, 1850-1870. Recovered in same trash pit as bowl in Figure 12. Photography by John Wright, No. P:96-3506; copyright by Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.

shell
Figure 14: Saw-cut Abalone shell from Chinese fishing campsite, SDi-12,953. Shell blanks were fashioned into jewelry, furniture inlay, and fishing lures. Although noted in historical literature, these specimens are the first recovered examples of Chinese cut-shell crafts on the Pacific Coast. Also associated with these rejected saw-cut pieces were clamshells, domesticated food animal bone, Asian and Chinese ceramics, and liquor bottle fragments. Photography by John Wright, No. P-98-5491. Copyright by Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.

harpoon
Figure 15: Detonated bomb lance harpoon recovered from trash pit near site SDi-12,593, the 1860-1870s Ballast Point Whaling Company warehouse. This artifact was associated with white table ceramics from England, glass mustard bottle fragments, wine and whiskey bottle pieces, and a few Chinese bowl pieces from 1850-1860s. Photography by John Wright, No. P:97-4101. Copyright by Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.

smoking pipe
Figure 16: Glazed, red clay smoking pipe George Washington, President style, 1850-1885. Recovered from site SDi-12,000, Ballast Point Whaling Station, which covered the previous ruins of Fort Guijarros. Photograph No. P:96-3383 by John Wright. Copyright by Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.

sherd
Figure 17: Spanish Majolica sherd, Aranama Tradition. Dates to post-1790 to pre-1835. Found in water-logged, anaerobic clay bog deposit behind a wall of Fort Guijarros. Photograph by John Wright, No. P:96-3581. Copyright by Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.

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