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--- On Wed, 12/24/08, Ron May <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Ron May <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: one-hole bone buttons/discs
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 4:04 AM
Jim,
From my experience in California, one-hole bone buttons are the rare
exception. We find high abundance of 2-hole and 4-hole machine-cut/drilled
shell
buttons; even higher abundance of black and white Proesser buttons; small
quantities of 2-hole and 4-hole machine-cut/drilled bone buttons. But one-holed
bone buttons in 19th and 20th century contexts are either exceedingly rare or
non-existent. But they are found at Spanish/Mexican Colonial sites, which is
what I mentioned in my past emails. To my knowledge, no one has tried to
nail-down the time range of one-hole bone buttons in California sites.
By the way, Spanish and Mexican military buttons were usually blank. Mexico
acquired unknown quantities of the Phoenix trade buttons for military uniforms
in the 1830s-1840s. Supplies for uniforms were infrequent out here, which
would explain the local manufacture of bone buttons.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
In a message dated 12/23/2008 3:03:49 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
From my experience in the south and East the one hole buttons are found in
urban and military locationsin abundance. The clothing type probably has
more
to do with finding these on sites than locale.
Jim Parker
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