CABRILLO
Shadows of the Past
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CHAPTER FOUR:
OVERVIEW OF THE MULTI-ETHNIC BALLAST POINT COMMUNITY ON
POINT LOMA BETWEEN 1846 AND 1900 (continued)
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Figure 12: Chinese Bamboo-style rice
bowl, 1850-1930. From a trash pit near Ballast Point Whaling Company
warehouse site (SDi-12,000). This style of rice bowl was common with
overseas Chinese immigrants and sojourners in many 19th and 20th century
Chinese communities in California. It was found with fish bone, wild
bird eggs, English ceramics, cut abalone and brass pieces, bottle
fragments and other Chinese ceramic containers. Photograph by John
Wright, No. P:97-3823; copyright by Fort Guijarros Museum
Foundation.
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Figure 13: Chinese Double
Happiness-style bowl, 1850-1870. Recovered in same trash pit as bowl in
Figure 12. Photography by John Wright, No. P:96-3506; copyright by Fort
Guijarros Museum Foundation.
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Figure 14: Saw-cut Abalone shell from
Chinese fishing campsite, SDi-12,953. Shell blanks were fashioned into
jewelry, furniture inlay, and fishing lures. Although noted in
historical literature, these specimens are the first recovered examples
of Chinese cut-shell crafts on the Pacific Coast. Also associated with
these rejected saw-cut pieces were clamshells, domesticated food animal
bone, Asian and Chinese ceramics, and liquor bottle fragments.
Photography by John Wright, No. P-98-5491. Copyright by Fort Guijarros
Museum Foundation.
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Figure 15: Detonated bomb lance harpoon
recovered from trash pit near site SDi-12,593, the 1860-1870s Ballast
Point Whaling Company warehouse. This artifact was associated with
white table ceramics from England, glass mustard bottle fragments, wine
and whiskey bottle pieces, and a few Chinese bowl pieces from
1850-1860s. Photography by John Wright, No. P:97-4101. Copyright by
Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.
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Figure 16: Glazed, red clay smoking pipe
George Washington, President style, 1850-1885. Recovered from site
SDi-12,000, Ballast Point Whaling Station, which covered the previous
ruins of Fort Guijarros. Photograph No. P:96-3383 by John Wright.
Copyright by Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.
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Figure 17: Spanish Majolica sherd,
Aranama Tradition. Dates to post-1790 to pre-1835. Found in
water-logged, anaerobic clay bog deposit behind a wall of Fort
Guijarros. Photograph by John Wright, No. P:96-3581. Copyright by Fort
Guijarros Museum Foundation.
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