Julie

No excavated contexts that come to mind from Australia.  However, there
are historical accounts and memoirs from former [or, more correctly, in
great decline] goldfields, where the main Chinese presence was in
operating town stores or general businesses.  At least one of these
accounts referred to the shopkeeper supplying Chinese goods, I think
particularly Chinese style herbal medicines and condiments, to the
non-Chinese local population.

Presumably this was one explanation for the presence of storage
containers in non-Chinese sites.

Denis

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Does anyone have any references to 19th or early 20th century Chinese
artifacts in non-Chinese households.  I have two shouldered storage
jars found
on the burned floorboards of a British immigrant family from 1875 in
Virginia
City, NV.

Priscilla Wegars stated she does not know of a site where storage jars
were
encountered in a non-Chinese context. A Chinese servant is not an
option since
the house was in a working class neighborhood and the house was only
about 12 X
15 feet in size.


I was hoping for some other references where Chinese were not the only
ones re-
using these common jars.

On or off list is fine at [log in to unmask]  Thank you.

Julie