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ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF NATIVE AMERICAN PARTICIPATION<br />

IN THE CASA DE BANDINI HOUSEHOLD, OLD TOWN SAN DIEGO STATE HISTORIC PARK<br />

JERRY SCHAEFER<br />

ASM AFFILIATES, INC., CARLSBAD<br />

The local Kumeyaay Indians appear to be almost invisible in the historical record of the Casa de Bandini,<br />

but their presence and importance to the operation of the Bandini household is manifest in the abundant<br />

archaeological remains, including Tizon Brown Ware ceramics, milling equipment, and other finds. Their<br />

participation in the daily life of the Bandini household and how their experiences trans<strong>for</strong>med their own<br />

cultural traditions are explored by a detailed examination of distinctive Native American artifacts.<br />

HISTORIC CONTEXT OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN OLD TOWN<br />

AND THE CASA DE BANDINI<br />

The native Kumeyaay Indians are almost invisible in the historical record of Old Town San<br />

Diego. In one early American-era lithograph, there is the Bandini Adobe (Figure 1, arrow) and there are<br />

the Native Americans on Presidio Hill looking down from a distance. In a way, this image reflects the<br />

marginalization of Native Americans from Euro-American society after the collapse of the missions and<br />

the American takeover. Life in Old Town could be very severe <strong>for</strong> them, as Richard Carrico documents. It<br />

included indentured servitude of Indian children and adults, public flogging <strong>for</strong> minor offenses, and even<br />

unprosecuted murders at the hands of Euro-Americans (R. Carrico 1986; Shipek 1986, 1987). At the same<br />

time, some Native American children and adults who were taken into American households were treated<br />

kindly, if not paternally (Chandler and Quinn 1991). Such Americans thought they were following<br />

religious precepts of good works by helping their wards assimilate into Yankee Victorian society. This<br />

might mean they were training Indians to be servants or skilled workers only, with no regard <strong>for</strong> their<br />

traditional culture, and permanently assigning them to the socioeconomic underclass. Throughout this<br />

period, Native Americans increasingly lost their land base and traditional means of livelihood as their<br />

numbers steadily diminished. As a result, the threat of Native uprisings was a constant source of worry,<br />

including to Bandini himself, as his personal letters attest. Conditions were especially unsettled at his<br />

Tecate Rancho below the U.S./Mexican border.<br />

Despite these abuses, many Native Americans found gainful employment in Old Town, and a<br />

small number became integral members of important households. Although the written record about the<br />

Native Americans who lived and worked in Old Town is scant indeed, it is through the archaeological<br />

context of ceramics, milling tools, stone tools, and personal items that insights can be gained about the<br />

diversity of cultural traditions and technologies that were practiced under the roof of the Casa de Bandini,<br />

<strong>for</strong> example.<br />

Indian laborers were very likely involved in the construction of the adobe and very likely were<br />

installed as household servants when the Bandini family took up residence around 1829. Among the<br />

people very familiar with the southern Cali<strong>for</strong>nia Indians was Juan Bandini himself, as trustee <strong>for</strong> Mission<br />

San Gabriel, proprietor of a rancho that employed Indians, and intimately involved in local affairs<br />

involving Native Americans (Caughey 1995:16, 18, 21). Bandini employed many Indians at his Rancho<br />

Jurupa on the Santa Ana River across the present Riverside-San Bernardino county border and at his<br />

Tecate Rancho in Baja Cali<strong>for</strong>nia. Bandini’s letters from the 1840s reflect both benign and harsh<br />

treatment of his Indian workers and ex-mission wards on different occasions. He could be both exploitive<br />

and humane, it seems, depending on the situation (Walch 2011:39-40). Of Bandini, Richard Henry Dana<br />

on January 6, 1836, wrote that at his home in Old Town he “kept a retinue of Indians” (Dana 1911:297).<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 137


Figure 1. Lithograph of Old Town San Diego, based on the original 1850 sketch by H. M. T. Powell. View<br />

south from Presidio Hill. The arrow points to the Bandini Adobe (Pourade 1963:131).<br />

Other prominent families also likely brought household servants with them when they arrived in<br />

Old Town. Indians, however, were always a small segment of the pueblo population. Farris (2006)<br />

suggests that some Indians <strong>for</strong>merly at the missions likely sought employment by necessity or choice at<br />

the pueblo after the missions were secularized in 1834-1835, although a much larger number either found<br />

work on the ranchos, joined one of the Indian pueblos libres or took up residence in a rancheria. Farris<br />

found 26 servants and their families in 13 different households listed in the April 17, 1836 census of Old<br />

Town. In most cases, they are described as attached to the woman who was head of the household. Three<br />

Indian servants of Don Juan Bandini are listed: Juan Miguel; his wife, Juana; and a single man also<br />

named Miguel. Married couples were often listed as servants, sometimes with their children who also<br />

likely worked <strong>for</strong> the family. Farris mentions that the cook was sometimes a male because of his previous<br />

mission experience. Other jobs included housemaids, nannies, and gardeners. The types of manual labor<br />

per<strong>for</strong>med by household staff included cooking, grinding corn and grains, slaughtering animals, and<br />

collecting firewood.<br />

Indian servants continued as household members in Old Town well into the American era. They<br />

can be identified in the 1860 San Diego County Census (San Diego Genealogical <strong>Society</strong> n.d.) as<br />

“domestic servants” or “servant” born in Cali<strong>for</strong>nia and listed with only a first name, as are most of the<br />

people living in the Indian rancherias as enumerated in the census (Figure 2). Approximately 28 Indian<br />

servants can be identified in Old Town, about the same number as counted in the 1836 census. Quite a<br />

number of them were children and teenagers. By this time, Juan Bandini had died and the adobe was<br />

unoccupied. Indian alienation and poverty were getting worse by then, but the Indians continued to live in<br />

small camps in Mission Valley and elsewhere. The 1860 census lists 59 individuals distributed among 11<br />

households at “San Diego Indian Village,” a location at Florida Canyon and Pershing Drive (S. Carrico<br />

1986).<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 138


Figure 2. Late nineteenth-century Kumeyaay rancheria in San Diego (commercial postcard in possession<br />

of the author).<br />

It is not known if Indian servants or workmen attended to the Albert Seeley household, although<br />

it is probable they were employed in the renovation and <strong>for</strong> various tasks in the hotel and adjacent stables.<br />

The 1870 and 1880 U.S. censuses list no Indians in residence at the Cosmo. As foodways and cooking<br />

technology changed with the conversion of the Casa de Bandini to the Cosmopolitan Hotel, it is likely<br />

that there was much less desire <strong>for</strong> the cooking staff to use traditional Indian pottery or other Native<br />

American tools <strong>for</strong> utilitarian purposes. Once a cast-iron stove was installed, round-bottomed cooking<br />

pots were probably not as practical.<br />

Susan Davis Tiffany reported in her memoirs of her time in residence at the Bandini Adobe<br />

(1898-1911) when it was a boarding house during the Ackerman and Tuffley era, that it was no trouble to<br />

acquire the services of Mexican and Indian girls and workmen who lived nearby. In fact, they had a “full<br />

blooded” Indian cook who prepared excellent Mexican dishes on their cast-iron stove (Tiffany 1973:8-9,<br />

17).<br />

CERAMICS<br />

The archaeological record provides the clearest testimony to Indian participation in the Bandini<br />

household. A large sample of Tizon Brown Ware was recovered from the excavations, most of it in good<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 139


Figure 3. Sample of Tizon Brown Ware rim sherds. Note the extensive sooting.<br />

historic contexts and with distinct attributes that indicate it was in use during the Bandini era (Figure 3).<br />

This presence of Native American ceramics is a continuation of a pattern that began at the royal presidio,<br />

where Tizon Brown Ware was found in abundance, along with smaller quantities of Lower Colorado<br />

River Buff Ware (Bartel 1991; Ezell and Ezell 1980; Schuyler 1978; Williams 2004). In fact, Tizon<br />

Brown Ware commonly occurs in Mexican- and early American-era Old Town household debris (Barter<br />

et al. 2012; Schulz et al. 1987), as it does in contemporary ranchos and other establishments in rural San<br />

Diego and elsewhere in southern Cali<strong>for</strong>nia (Evans 1969; Wade 2004).<br />

A total of 1,140 sherds (5,508.5g) of Tizon Brown Ware were collected, this being only a small<br />

sample of what must exist there. Although not necessarily a representative sample because of the<br />

purposive nature of testing and recovery, there clearly appear to be some spatial patterns that in<strong>for</strong>m on<br />

the function of native ceramics in the Bandini household (Table 1). The largest percentage by count (41.8<br />

percent) and almost the highest percentage by weight (33.6 percent) derived from Room 105, the kitchen<br />

area, with many small pieces trampled into the floors. Concentrations were highest in the southern half of<br />

the room but also in the sediments in the drain. Numerous vessels are represented by the diverse number<br />

of rim sherds. Almost equal percentages of ceramics derive from the various units and trenches in the<br />

courtyard (27.2 percent) and around the exterior of the building (28 percent). A higher percentage by<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 140


Table 1. Tizon Brown Ware ceramic counts and weights.<br />

PROVENIENCE COUNT WEIGHT (G)<br />

Unit 3 2 12.5<br />

Unit 21 9 31.0<br />

Unit 22 11 16.3<br />

Unit 24 3 11.8<br />

Unit 27 8 23.1<br />

Unit 30 138 991.0<br />

Unit 34 9 46.3<br />

Other 60 260.6<br />

Shovel Test C 5 10.7<br />

Test Scrape 1 1 5.7<br />

Courtyard<br />

Test Scrape 2 2 6.3<br />

Trench 01 1 2.1<br />

Trench 2 3 7.0<br />

Trench 4 34 288.9<br />

Trench 6 1 1.5<br />

Trench 8 1 4.7<br />

Trench 12 1 1.2<br />

Trench – Footing 2 11.2<br />

Trench – Grease 1 3.5<br />

Trench – Sewer 3 85.0<br />

Trench – Storm D 3 10.6<br />

Trench -- T 4 22.8<br />

Courtyard Total 302 1853.8<br />

Unit 1 77 172.5<br />

Unit 2 74 195.7<br />

Unit 3 45 330.1<br />

Unit 5 2 4.7<br />

Exterior<br />

Unit 6 25 147.4<br />

Unit 7 8 47.3<br />

Unit 8 21 57.0<br />

Unit 10 4 8.7<br />

Unit 26 32 684.2<br />

Other 1 0.1<br />

Exterior Total 319 1647.7<br />

Room 103 Trench 12 10 12.0<br />

Unit 19 1 15.5<br />

Room 104<br />

Unit 20 23 77.5<br />

Unit 21 1 1.4<br />

Trench 1 8 50.0<br />

Room 104 Total 33 144.4<br />

Unit 11 50 158.3<br />

Unit 13 11 58.7<br />

Unit 14 4 10.6<br />

Unit 15 153 688.7<br />

Room 105<br />

Unit 16 101 351.0<br />

Unit 19 8 86.0<br />

Drain 82 222.5<br />

Fire Pit B 1 2.4<br />

Other 64 266.4<br />

Trench 11 2 6.0<br />

Room 105 Total 476 1850.6<br />

Grand Total 1140 5508.5<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 141


weight derives from Unit 26 on the exterior in the direction of Calhoun Street, opposite Room 105, where<br />

a trash deposit of domestic artifacts was found near the brick drain under Room 105 where it emptied into<br />

the street. The deposit included Euro-American ceramics, food remains, and the largest concentration of<br />

milling tools to occur at the site. At least four Tizon Brown Ware cooking pots were represented,<br />

including the one small bowl of almost complete profile. A higher percentage by weight was also<br />

represented by the courtyard sample due to the number of large, partially mendable sherds from a single<br />

vessel found at the very southwest corner of the courtyard in Unit 30. Most of the vessel’s exterior was<br />

heavily sooted right up to the lip, while the base of the interior was covered with a carbonaceous residue.<br />

The vessel fragments co-occurred with the vertebral centrum of a cow and highly fragmented sheep/goat<br />

bone that firmly place it in the historical period. The unusual location at the extreme interior corner of the<br />

courtyard and below the top of the foundation may suggest remains from Native cooking and<br />

consumption during the construction of the Bandini Adobe.<br />

The ceramics exhibit little variability of fabric, being made from the typical residual clays of the<br />

San Diego coast and foothills. The fabric contains very high quantities (60-80 percent) of naturally<br />

occurring coarse, poorly sorted angular and subangular grains of quartz, feldspar, and amphibole. Mica is<br />

generally low in frequency but occurs more abundantly in a small number of sherds. As such, the<br />

ceramics fabrics and paddle and anvil construction methods all appear to indicate a persistence of the<br />

Tizon Brown Ware tradition. No fibre-tempered sherds or wheel thrown or moulded shapes of the socalled<br />

“Mission Ware” were found that more typically characterizes the ceramic tradition introduced to<br />

previously non-ceramic-making groups to the north or south of San Diego County (Griset 1990, 1996;<br />

Tuohy and Strawn 1989).<br />

Like Tizon ceramics found elsewhere in Old Town (Barter and Felton 2005; Barter et al. 2012),<br />

vessel walls appear to be thicker on average than in prehistoric assemblages, with thicker and more<br />

rounded lip profiles (Figures 4-5). Almost all the pottery appears to represent only two or three shapes:<br />

large-mouthed jars and bowls with recurved rims, and globular round bowls with incurving or straight<br />

rims. Virtually all the vessels were used <strong>for</strong> cooking, indicated by the predominance of exterior sooting,<br />

especially on the wide-mouthed bowls (Figure 6). Small-necked ollas, serving bowls, and plates appear to<br />

have been replaced by British, Asian, or Mexican imports.<br />

As a Latin American ethnographic analogy <strong>for</strong> the uses of Tizon at the Casa de Bandini, although<br />

imported cast-iron and enameled cooking and glazed wares became available, locally produced ceramics<br />

remained an important utilitarian item because of their availability, low cost, and distinctive<br />

characteristics of porosity, resistance to thermal shock, and free soluble salts (Rice 1987:104-106). In<br />

Latin American cooking, beans, in particular, cooked whole or refried, were better-tasting if prepared in<br />

earthenware vessels than in iron pots. Other special functions <strong>for</strong> unglazed earthenware vessels include<br />

parching or toasting seeds and maize, brewing chicha beer, and making corn flower cakes, rice, fried<br />

bananas, and fried pork (chicharon). Porous water jars naturally cooled the contents through evaporation<br />

(Arnold 1985:136, etc.; Caughey 1995:28). While metal cooking vessels, once available, replaced<br />

ceramic counterparts <strong>for</strong> many purposes, upper middle class ladino households in Guatemala still<br />

purchased earthenware vessels <strong>for</strong> certain traditional food preparation and storage (Arnold 1985:142).<br />

Likewise, the advantages of Tizon Brown Ware <strong>for</strong> certain types of cooking would have been well-known<br />

to the Indian cooks in the Bandini household and most likely also to members of the Bandini family.<br />

MILLING TOOLS<br />

A total of 43 hand stones or manos, either whole or fragmented, were found (Table 2). Some are<br />

well-<strong>for</strong>med circular or oval hand stones of local quartzite or metavolcanics (Figures 7-8). Others,<br />

however, are the oval and bevel-edged vesicular basalt types that were imported from Mexico and<br />

represent the traditional mano and metate kit found in any Mexican kitchen (Figure 9). Like the Tizon<br />

ceramics, the cobble manos represent the integration of locally made items into Spanish/Mexican<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 142


Figure 4. Tizon Brown Ware rim profiles from interior and exterior units.<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 143


Figure 5 Tizon Brown Ware rim profiles from Room 105 and monitoring trenches.<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 144


Figure 6. Range of Tizon Brown Ware shapes. Those marked with an “X” were not represented at the<br />

Casa de Bandini.<br />

Figure 7. Cobble-based mano and vesicular basalt mano from Unit 26, Stratum II.<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 145


Table 2. Milling tools.<br />

CAT.<br />

MATERIAL /<br />

LENGTH WIDTH THICKNESS<br />

WEIGHT<br />

NO. UNIT AREA ARTIFACT TYPE ALTERATION * CONDITION (MM) (MM) (MM) COUNT (G)<br />

4249 27 Courtyard unifacial hand stone metavolcanic complete 102.2 90.4 35.7 1 494.7<br />

4250 26 Exterior multifacial hand stone granite complete 151.5 96.4 44.2 1 1170.1<br />

4251 26 Exterior multifacial hand stone volcanic / basalt complete 137.5 71.3 76.1 1 1068.0<br />

4252 26 Exterior multifacial hand stone cryptocrystalline complete 143.8 110.7 55.8 1 1367.5<br />

4253 26 Exterior multifacial hand stone granite nearly complete 81.7 67.2 56.5 1 479.2<br />

4254 26 Exterior bifacial hand stone cryptocrystalline – FAR end 63.7 29.4 34.1 1 107.2<br />

4255 26 Exterior multifacial hand stone granite - FAR complete 105.2 89.8 41.0 1 595.3<br />

4256 9 Exterior multifacial hand stone metavolcanic - FAR nearly complete 110.0 128.0 70.9 1 1664.1<br />

4257 31 Courtyard multifacial hand stone granite - FAR nearly complete 157.8 96.6 92.6 1 1879.5<br />

4258 Trench 2 Courtyard bifacial hand stone granite complete 99.7 68.3 49.2 1 526.7<br />

4259 Trench 2 Courtyard multifacial hand stone metavolcanic nearly complete 166.6 113.5 62.7 1 1466.2<br />

4260 Trench 2 Courtyard multifacial hand stone granite nearly complete 145.0 90.5 76.6 1 1166.7<br />

4261 26 Exterior multifacial hand stone volcanic / basalt nearly complete 88.0 64.1 29.7 1 143.6<br />

4262 29 Room 105 multifacial hand stone granite end 87.2 48.9 29.1 1 198.4<br />

4263 20 Room 103 bifacial hand stone granite end 81.9 108.1 46.4 1 566.9<br />

4264 24 Courtyard multifacial hand stone granite end 97.1 48.7 40.2 1 255.1<br />

4265 27 Courtyard multifacial hand stone granite end 61.9 48.7 29.8 1 112.7<br />

4266 30 Courtyard multifacial hand stone granite - FAR end 113.2 88.1 50.7 1 566.9<br />

4267 27 Courtyard bifacial hand stone granite - FAR end 71.6 43.1 41.8 1 196.4<br />

4270 7 Exterior bifacial hand stone granite nearly complete 76.9 90.2 51.5 1 516.1<br />

4271 28 Exterior multifacial hand stone granite - FAR nearly complete 93.7 67.6 49.0 1 473.7<br />

4272 30 Courtyard bifacial hand stone granite - FAR end 100.2 88.8 47.4 1 478.4<br />

4273 30 Courtyard multifacial hand stone granite - FAR end 60.9 50.9 25.1 1 73.6<br />

4274 3 Exterior unifacial hand stone granite end 43.5 34.7 27.0 1 49.2<br />

4275 3 Exterior unifacial hand stone granite end 51.0 35.0 15.6 1 27.3<br />

4326 14-15 Room 105 unifacial hand stone metavolcanic complete 88.0 69.0 31.0 3 --<br />

4327 20 Room 104 bifacial hand stone granite - FAR -- -- -- -- 1 564.1<br />

4692 other Other hand stone FAR -- -- -- -- 1 929.0<br />

4697 2 Exterior hand stone granite -- 42.9 23.4 16.3 1 17.0<br />

4718 other Exterior hand stone -- fragment -- -- -- 1 269.0<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 146


CAT.<br />

NO. UNIT AREA ARTIFACT TYPE<br />

MATERIAL /<br />

ALTERATION * CONDITION<br />

LENGTH<br />

(MM)<br />

WIDTH<br />

(MM)<br />

THICKNESS<br />

(MM) COUNT<br />

WEIGHT<br />

(G)<br />

4719 other Exterior hand stone -- fragment -- -- -- 4 624.1<br />

4751 hearth Exterior hand stone -- fragment -- -- -- 1 85.3<br />

4809 Trench 11 Room 101 hand stone -- fragments -- -- -- 4 195.0<br />

4810 other Exterior hand stone -- fragments -- -- -- 2 331.8<br />

5214 other Courtyard hand stone granite fragment -- -- -- 1 526.3<br />

5215 other Courtyard hand stone granite fragment -- -- -- 1 593.9<br />

5531 drain hearth Courtyard<br />

bifacial hand stone,<br />

sharpening stone<br />

metavolcanic complete -- -- -- 1 74.9<br />

5536 drain hearth Courtyard<br />

percussing tool -<br />

sharpening stone<br />

granite nearly complete -- -- -- 1 139.2<br />

6147 other Courtyard<br />

unifacial hand stone,<br />

used in foundation<br />

granite complete 10.0 9.0 7.5 1 958.4<br />

* FAR = fire-affected rock<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 147


Figure 8. Fire-affected stones from Room 105 with evidence of polish and ground surfaces (Cat. 4326).<br />

foodways and technology that, even be<strong>for</strong>e they first appeared in San Diego, incorporated elements of<br />

Native American and European traditions in the Mexican heartland.<br />

LITHICS AND OTHER ARTIFACTS<br />

Other traditional Native American artifacts included 30 pieces of lithic debitage, a late-stage<br />

biface core, two other cores, a couple of retouched flakes, and one hammer stone. There were no<br />

projectile points. All these items occur in obvious historic contexts. Items of possible Native American<br />

ownership include a Phoenix button (Carrico 1982; Strong 1960, 1975), found on top of one of the<br />

earliest wall foundations at the site. Two per<strong>for</strong>ated silver coins may also be from Native American<br />

ornaments or clothing.<br />

Another object of likely Native manufacture is a ceramic disk with ground edges (Figure 10).<br />

Similar worked Euro-American ceramics come from ethnohistoric-period sites. Although typically<br />

classified as “gaming pieces,” they may also have been used as jar stoppers or had some other utilitarian<br />

use. This one was made from a blue transfer-printed earthenware. The pattern is “English Cities,” made<br />

by Enoch Wood & Sons of Staf<strong>for</strong>dshire, England (1828-1846). Several other fragments of the same<br />

pattern were found nearby in the same context (Unit 26), where a Bandini-era trash deposit occurred<br />

outside of the kitchen and in association with milling tools and Tizon Brown Ware.<br />

One whole Olivella biplicata shell bead and 53 glass trade beads are also likely evidence of<br />

Native Americans (Figure 11). Drawn and Mandrel-wound bead types are found in ethnohistoric-period<br />

Native American sites throughout the Pacific West and in historic sites at which Native Americans were<br />

present, including ranches, presidios, pueblos, missions, and early American cities (Baker et al. 1995:18;<br />

Karklins and Sprague 1972, 1980; Kidd and Kidd 1970; Motz and Schulz 1980; Ross 1976). Most of<br />

these inexpensive beads were not used by Euro-Americans. Among the most common of the 12 types<br />

were short, ground, multisided drawn beads that occur in translucent blue, opaque black, and clear. They<br />

are often referred to as “Russian Beads” because they were widely traded in the northern Pacific, although<br />

they likely derive from Bohemian manufacturers.<br />

So, a few final questions remain. By what economic or cultural process did ceramics in particular<br />

come into the Bandini household? Do they represent Tizon ceramics becoming a commodity and Native<br />

potters finding an economic niche in Old Town trade? The quantity of Tizon in historic contexts<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 148


Figure 9. Typical Mexican kitchen assemblage (Cali<strong>for</strong>nia Department of Parks and Recreation 2003).<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 149


Figure 10. Worked transfer-printed English ceramic.<br />

throughout Old Town suggests persistent and well-established methods of procurement. Was it a barter<br />

system, a currency system, or a combination? Does the appearance of Native American artifacts represent<br />

the product of the social and economic relationships of the household staff with potters, perhaps even<br />

relatives, who continued to practice their craft and who lived in rancherias around Old Town? The<br />

historical record provides no answer. Up to now, no record exists of Tizon vessels being sold in stores, as<br />

occurred <strong>for</strong> the marketing of Quechan pottery in Yuma (<strong>Schaefer</strong> 1993; Trippel 1889). Nor is there a<br />

record of Kumeyaay women selling pots in the open markets that characterize many Mexican towns. Did<br />

Old Town even have open markets? I presume they did in the early period, but probably not in the<br />

American period. If some sort of market <strong>for</strong> Tizon pots existed, perhaps Kumeyaay women, or their<br />

agents, peddled their wares directly to each household in Old Town, or on the street, as was common <strong>for</strong><br />

Tohono O’odham potters in Arizona (Fontana et al. 1962). I expect that somewhere a record exists, but<br />

<strong>for</strong> now we must content ourselves with the rich archaeological record of Native Americans in the life of<br />

Old Town.<br />

SCA Proceedings, Volume 26 (2012) <strong>Schaefer</strong>, p. 150


Figure 11. Representative sample of glass trade beads types.<br />

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