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.  

-----Original Message-----
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]>
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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