Hi Carl (and HistArchers),
Below is the table of UMB Vessels and how decoration on these vessels correlates with stylistic element bands in DAACS (I am happy to provide this as an excel spreadsheet and it is possible that the table will not come through the listserv. Please email me off list if you would like a copy or can’t see it here). I would need the decorative data for all UMB vessels (and, ideally, chronological data—i.e. date of context in which that sherds were found) in order to see how the UMB band elements fit with Roberts’ data and the data from blue-painted pearlware in DAACS. One critical element in understanding how decorative elements of all types vary is to have the ability to control for time—either by having a dated vessel or an independent archaeological measure of time.
I hope this has answered your question and please follow up if you have any more. Thank you as well for your nice words about DAACS. We are here to help people engage with the data—stylistic or otherwise—that are in the archive. Just email me if anyone has any questions about using the online query tools and the data they deliver.
Best,
Jillian
Jillian E. Galle
Project Manager,
Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
Monticello
Box 316
Charlottesville, VA 22902
434.984.9873
www.daacs.org<http://www.daacs.org>
UMB Vessel #
Location
DAACS Stylistic Element
Vessel 37
Interior
Plain Band 08
Vessel 37
Exterior
Plain Band 08 AND A band that is currently not in DAACS. We would identify this as a Swag Band, the same swag band on Vessel 29.
Vessel 403
Interior
Plain Band 1 or Plain Band 6, depending on this band's location. See DAACS Sty Element glossaries for band definitions.
Vessel 403
Exterior
Plain Band 1 or Plain Band 6, depending on this band's location. See DAACS Sty Element glossaries for band definitions. AND a Swag Band that is not currently in DAACS.
Vessel 21
Interior
Plain Band 1 and a Trellis Band that we do not currently have in DAACS.
Vessel 21
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 29
Interior
Plain Band 08 AND A band that is currently not in DAACS. We would identify this as a Swag Band, the same swag band on Vessel 37.
Vessel 29
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 36
Interior
The Swag Band is currently not in DAACS AND Plain Band 1 or Plain Band 6, depending on this band's location. See DAACS Sty Element glossaries for band definitions.
Vessel 36
Exterior
Plain Band 1 or Plain Band 6, depending on this band's location. See DAACS Sty Element glossaries for band definitions.
Vessel 409
Interior
Plain Band 1, Dot Band (we don't have it in DAACS but would classify it as a Dot Band), and Husk Chain Band 01. We would link all three bands together as a "Stacked Combination".
Vessel 409
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 400
Interior
Husk Chain Band 4 and a Plain Band, which is not in DAACS (i.e. we have not seen this band but would identify it and record it as a Plain Band).
Vessel 400
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 404
Interior
Not in DAACS (we would classify this as a botanical band)
Vessel 404
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 407
Interior
Half-Circle Band 03
Vessel 407
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 32
Interior
Plain Band 1 or Plain Band 6, depending on this band's location. See DAACS Sty Element glossaries for band definitions.
Vessel 32
Exterior
Plain Band 1 or Plain Band 6, depending on this band's location. See DAACS Sty Element glossaries for band definitions.
Vessel 35
Interior
Plain Band 08
Vessel 35
Exterior
Not in DAACS. We'd probably put this in either the Geometric or Dot Band category.
Vessel 19
Interior
Plain Band 14
Vessel 19
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 23
Interior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 23
Exterior
Plain Band 01
Vessel 405
Interior
Not in DAACS. We'd probably put this in either the Geometric or Dot Band category.
Vessel 405
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 408
Interior
Not in DAACS. We'd call this a Trellis Band.
Vessel 408
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 402
Interior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 402
Exterior
Not in DAACS. We would classify this as a Botanical Band.
Vessel 31
Interior
Probably Scallop Band 06. It is difficult to tell from the illustration if the "U" scallops are half filled with a light blue shading. AND Plain Band 01. Stacked Combination.
Vessel 31
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 22
Interior
Not in DAACS. We would classify this as a Half-Circle Band.
Vessel 22
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 28
Interior
Fish Roe Band 2
Vessel 28
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
Vessel 411
Interior
Plain Band 1
Vessel 411
Exterior
Plain Band 1
Vessel 25
Interior
Plain Band 1
Vessel 25
Exterior
Plain Band 08
Vessel 413
Interior
Plain Band 1 (or Plain Band 08, if this is a two-colored band. It is difficult to tell from the illustration if the band is deliberately light blue/dark blue or if the two tones are a function of the drawing program. In Roberts' book, all examples show single-color blue lines.)
Vessel 413
Exterior
Not in DAACS. We would either call this a Botanical Band or a Botanical Spring (repeated), depending on how much of the decoration we had on any given sherd.
Vessel 17
Interior
Plain Band 1 (or Plain Band 08, if this is a two-colored band. It is difficult to tell from the illustration if the band is deliberately light blue/dark blue or if the two tones are a function of the drawing program. In Roberts' book, all examples show single-color blue lines.)
Vessel 17
Exterior
Plain Band 1 (or Plain Band 08, if this is a two-colored band. It is difficult to tell from the illustration if the band is deliberately light blue/dark blue or if the two tones are a function of the drawing program. In Roberts' book, all examples show single-color blue lines.)
Vessel 20
Interior
Plain Band 1
Vessel 20
Exterior
Not Applicable (No Band)
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Steen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 7:19 AM
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I should have known you guys would have already done something like this! You are doing a great job with DAACS. Thanks,
Carl Steen
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From: Jillian Galle <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
To: HISTARCH <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Sent: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 8:28 pm
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Hi, Carl and fellow Hist Archers.
I am happy to tackle this. I’ll start tonight and follow-up with some more information tomorrow, once I get back into the office.
Let me begin by explaining the band assignments. In 2000 DAACS (The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, www.daacs.org<http://www.daacs.org>) developed a system for recording stylistic elements on decorated ceramics. We called it the DAACS Stylistic Element System and you can read about it, and how it works, here:
http://www.daacs.org/aboutdatabase/stylisticelements.html/.
Since 2000 DAACS staff has recorded nearly 700 individual stylistic elements, including band types. We have named, photographed or illustrated, and described these stylistic elements in glossaries. These glossaries can also be found at the above link (links to the glossaries are on the right side of the screen).
Data about these elements (from color to dec tech to location), and the sherds and vessels on which they are found, can be explored using DAACS artifact queries (Artifact Query 5 is best for this).
When asked to review the Roberts' book, I thought it would be especially interesting to connect the stylistic elements —with a focus on band types for this review—illustrated in her book with stylistic elements already in the DAACS glossary. We had many of the band types seen in Robert's catalog but others were new to us. Any new band element seen in Roberts’ book was recorded in the DAACS stylistic element glossaries.
Due to the small sample size in Roberts’ book, I grouped individual band elements by general band types for the analysis. For example, all specific Trellis Band (TB 1, TB2, TB 3, etc.) were grouped together as simply Trellis Bands. Grouping into general band categories allowed me to do the analysis. The sample size of individually named elements was too small to see any statistically significant trends.
Tomorrow I will send out a table that equates the UMB elements with those stylistic elements currently in DAACS (and, therefore, in Roberts’ book). I am also happy to distribute the data set I created from Roberts’ book that I used for the analysis I presented in Ceramics in America. Please email me off list if you would like a copy of that data set.
And here is a shout-out to UMB folks: would you be willing to share your raw data on your pearlware vessels and their corresponding band elements from the Sarah Boston site? It would make for a potentially very cool comparison of decorative choice and acquisition in New England to slave sites in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean.
Best,
Jillian
Jillian E. Galle
Project Manager,
Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery Monticello Box 316 Charlottesville, VA 22902
434.984.9873
www.daacs.org<http://www.daacs.org>
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From: Carl Steen [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 3:45 PM
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Interesting and informative review Jillian - can you apply the band styles you discuss to the bands shown at:
http://blogs.umb.edu/fiskecenter/2013/02/06/the-boston-farmsteads-handpainted-pearlware-rim-patterns/
That would be a great help to all of us. I don't mean this as a criticism in any way. I just wasn't sure exactly what you meant in a couple of cases.
thanks!
Carl Steen
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From: Fraser D. Neiman <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
To: HISTARCH <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Sent: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 2:11 pm
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available
Hi Folks,
Just a quick follow-up to George's and Rob's recommendations on cool stuff in
the Rob's latest triumph: the 2012 Volume of Ceramics in America.
Jillian Galle's review of Lois Roberts' Dated in Blue: Underglaze Bue Painted
Earthenware, 1776 to 1800 may also be of interest to many Histarch-ers. Jillian
mines Roberts' beautifully illustrated catalog of dated vessels to gain useful
and provocative insights into the interpretive significance of decorative
variation and the distinction between creamware and pearlware.
With Rob's permission (thanks Rob!), there is a scan on the DAACS website.
Here it the link
http://www.daacs.org/research/
best to all,
Fraser
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From: Robert Hunter [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:22 PM
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Thanks George!
One of the most important articles for the archaeological community is Doug
Ross's:
"Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Japanese
Domestic Wares from British Columbia."
This article will prove invaluable for anyone working on late 19th/early 20th
century sites in North America.
I should have a .pdf suitable for email shortly.....Please send me a request
OFFLINE to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
I have may have other pdf's available if I receive a suitable number of
requests..
We are considering taking to the journal to an online format in the
future...please give me any feedback as to your feelings about that.
Also please consider "Liking" our FB pages where we are know posting New
Discoveries and related resources including great photographi material
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ceramics-in-America/240354719316500
Rob Hunter
Editor, Ceramics in America
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From: George Miller <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Sent: Wed, Jan 30, 2013 1:11 pm
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The 2012 volume of *Ceramics in America *edited by Robert Hunter* *has just
been published. It has a number of excellent articles dealing with
American stonewares, Japanese and Chinese ceramics imported into North
America, ceramics from a Spanish shipwreck, ceramics from an 1813 auction
from a rize brig captured by an American privateer, and Baltimore porcelain.
Here is a list of the articles.
Douglas E. Ross
Linda R. Pomper "Early Chinese Porcelain found in Panama."
Barbara and Ken Beem "A History of Baltimore Porcelain."
Leslie and Peter Warwick "New Perspectives on Chinese Export Blue-and-White
Canton Porcelain."
Sean Kinglsey, Ellen Gerth, and Michael Hughes "Ceramics from the Tortugas
Shipwreck: A Spanish-Operated *Navio* of the 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet."
George L. Miller "Ceramics from the 1813 Prize Brig *Ann*, Auctioned in
Salem, Massachusetts: An Analysis." The cargo included 250 crates of
ceramics that amounted to 109,000 vessels.
Barbara H. Magid "Stone-ware of excellent quality, Alexandria manufacture"
Part I: The Pottery of John Swann."
Warren F. Hartmann "The Stoneware of Early Albany: A Mystery Solved."
Paul Cushman " Paul Cushman: The Premier Albany Potter and His Stoneware."
In addition to the articles there are five extensive book reviews of
recently published books on ceramics.
*Ceramics in America *articles are accompanied by wonderful color
photographs of the vessels by Gavin Ashworth. The journal is published by
the Chipstone Foundation and distributed by the University Press of New
England. It is hard bound and is available for $65. Since 2001 *Ceramics
in America *has been the major journal for ceramic articles appealing to
archaeologists, curators, social historians, collectors and studio potters.
Peace,
George L. Miller
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