Abstract
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Zekiah Swamp was a sparsely settled frontier region on Maryland’s Western Shore. Investigations were conducted in 1996 at the site of Westwood Manor, a plantation and general store during the late 17th century. Re-analysis of this assemblage in 2010 suggested that the manor’s occupants and their clientele were striving to reconstitute an English material world in the Maryland Colony. Along with a variety of expensive and presentation-quality ceramic and glass vessels, the assemblage included an elaborately decorated ivory walking-stick handle, a silver spoon, and other luxury items. The walking stick and other high-quality merchandise available through the Westwood Manor store are used to discuss archaeological evidence of fashion as a statement of power, wealth, and status in early colonial Maryland.
DOI
10.22191/neha/vol40/iss1/4
Recommended Citation
Samford, Patricia
(2011)
"Being Fashionable on Maryland's Western Shore in the Late Seventeenth Century,"
Northeast Historical Archaeology:
Vol.
40
40, Article 4.
https://doi.org/10.22191/neha/vol40/iss1/4
Available at:
https://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol40/iss1/4
