Colonial America

Trade & Culture

Dr. Kane

mkane2@albany.edu Social Science 116 | MWF 12:35-1:30 PM

Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30 Social Science 60S

Wednesday, September 13

coming up

  • Objects paper due Monday Sept 25 (BB)
  • OPTIONAL feedback via Blackboard
  • Check Taylor's bibliography
  • EC: Sept 28 11:30 Hum 230 Charlottesville roundtable

today's class

  • how do we know what we know
  • what did contact look like from Native side
  • how to read objects

Kane, Shoemaker, Johnson

  • why did Native people seek out European cloth and clothing?
  • how did trade with European settlements allow Seneca women to expand traditional practices and how did this improve the Senecas’ standard of living?
  • in what ways were Native and European early categories of race similiar?

Vespucci waking America

america
america

what did contact look like from the other side?

  • poor hygiene - facial hair!!
  • lack of women = hostile intent
  • poor preparation, European dependency
  • who worships what?

Iroquoia

iroquoia
pipes

archaeology

whitesprings
whitesprings

archaeology

weft
weft

archaeology

pipes
pipes

documents

acctbk
acctbk

documents

chart
chart

objects

dress
dress

objects

mohawk woman
mohawk woman

art

1710
1710