Hi Ron,
This is a pretty neat story. Could you send us an image of it?
Thanks!
Eric
On Feb 12, 2007, at 10:07 PM, Ron May wrote:
> I offered a reconstructed Asian bowl with a chipped and ground notch
> recovered from a Chinese trash pit at a fishing camp adjacent to
> the Ballast Point
> whaling station (CA-SDI-12,953). I believe the Chinese cook for
> the whalers
> moonlighted in Western medicine by adapting the traditional shallow
> bowl for
> bloodletting. The resultant shape with the notch closely resembles
> bloodletting
> bowls made for the practice.
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
>