@article {9643,
	title = {Interethnic Contact and Nineteenth Century British Ceramic Distribution},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {15},
	year = {1991},
	pages = {129-142},
	abstract = {<p>This paper considers the growth in Native Alaskan dependency on items that the Russians initially categorized as \&$\#$39;triffles\&$\#$39; and \&$\#$39;things that the natives did not in the least need.\&$\#$39; British ceramics aasociated with the tea complex are used to examine the impact of western material culture on indigenous populations in southwestern Alaska during the nineteenth century. Motivations for contact and Russian relationships with Alaskan Native populations are discussed. Selective processes associated with the incorporation of exogenous artifacts are examined and key factors explaining the presence of British ceramics in their new context isolated. Because teaware would not be predicted in Russian America using arguments of either differential legal, social or economic status commonly used to explain ceramic distribution patterns elsewhere in North America, an alternative multicausal approach to the consideration of trade good incorporation in colonial contact settings is proposed.</p>},
	author = {Louise M. Jackson}
}
