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"Lawrence H. Feldman" <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 12 Oct 1995 19:29:30 -0400
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One source that you might find useful, although geographically it concerns
Central America, is a book entitled "A Tumpline Economy."  The emphasis is on
southeast Guatemala in the sixteenth (and eighteenth) centuries. One of my
concerns was to provide a description of artifacts that could be found
archaeologically and, using contemporary sources, show how they were made and
distributed and/or used in the cultures of those periods.  Much of the
artifact detail comes from contemporary Spanish/Indian language dictionaries.
Use and distribution data often comes from documents generated by the
Hispanic colonial administration.
 
        There is relatively little on textiles reported in this book but
interestingly enough information on textiles and other goods imported from
Europe, often illegally imported from Europe (I remember a reference to an
illegally imported ceramic vessel with a picture on it of the  "famous
heretic King" George III of England) could be found in the records of the
customs administration in the Archivo General de  Centro America (Guatemala
City). Being beyond the scope of  A Tumpline Economy, which was concerned
mostly with the local production and distribution systems, most of what I saw
in the customs records were not published.
 
      For those who are interested, the complete citation of a "Tumpline
Economy" is:
 
        A Tumpline Economy: Production and Distribution Systems in
Sixteenth-Century Eastern Guatemala, by Lawrence H. Feldman.  1985.
 Labyrinthos Press, 3064 Holline Court, Lancaster, CA 93535.
 
             L. H. Feldman
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