Storm in a Teacup: The Life of a Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Settler Told through Her Tea Ware

• Naomi Woods ^[1]
  1. [1] Dunedin,New Zealand
• Localización: Historical Archaeology, ISSN 0440-9213, Vol. 53, Nº. 3-4, 2019, págs. 702-721
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Tea ware has been the focus of numerous North American and Australian historical archaeology studies of female consumer behavior in colonial contexts. This article uses data from a 19th-century urban site in Whanganui, New Zealand, to examine how these previously explored experiences of self-expression and social pressure compare to those of a woman from another part of the colonial world. To do this, the ways in which three aspects of Mary Byrne’s tea-ware assemblage changed over time were examined and considered alongside events that occurred during her 40-year occupation of the site. The results highlight the varied and complex ways in which a first-generation settler in New Zealand used material culture to negotiate a place in her new community.