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It's our little city museum in Placerville, but the same people who run it
(the docents) work at the county museum and are involved in county-wide
preservation and interpretation. They work hard and are dedicated and
underpaid - I want to be respectful, you know?
Anyway, I too have not heard (or remembered) mention of artifactual remains
associated with tea.
Sent an email to Dr. Wegars - I'll let you know what I find.
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Susan
Walter
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:06 PM
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Subject: Re: Chinese tea tins
Hi Trish,
Which museum are you referring to?
The old tea packaging I have seen was in the Virginia City, Montana's
Chinese Store, and it was in wooden crates, or cardboard boxes. I don't
recall ever seeing references to artifactual remains of tea packaging in any
of the archaeological reports that I use for Chinese sites. Contact (or I
will if you wish) Priscilla Wegars at the Asian Comparative Collection in
Moscow, Idaho, at [log in to unmask]; or call the local Chinese Historical
Society Museum at 619 338-9888. At any rate, I'd be interested in whatever
you find out.
Susan Walter
----- Original Message -----
From: "trish fernandez" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:45 PM
Subject: Chinese tea tins
> A local museum has an opium tin displayed and labeled "Chinese tea
> tin". Before I tell them they are wrong, I wanted to research chinese
> tea packaging. I did a quick internet search but couldn't find
> anything that specifically addressed historic packaging of Chinese
> tea. Could someone tell me how tea was packaged? Thanks so much.
>
> Trish Fernandez
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