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astrolabe newsletter of the Turks & Caicos National Museum Above: After a full day of clearing off the tomb and wall, this is the appearance of the graveyard’s Structure 2. Left: This shows the possible stucco found on the outside of a tomb and on the sides of a few plot walls. nent reference point that’s used for creating a grid and for measuring) by hammering a metal rod about a foot into the ground nearby. It was now time to begin removal of the overgrowth. I was equipped with pruning shears, a hand saw and branch clippers, but the vegetation was dense and the human-eating, devilishly thorned acacia bushes were not going to be dismissed without a fight! Fortunately, I was assisted by Vanessa Pateman, a graduate student in museum studies from the University of Western Illinois. Her hard work and enthusiasm was very much appreciated. I also want to thank Dr. Pateman for his help clearing the brush during one especially hot day. We spent the entire first day just clearing off the tomb and wall. The next day, we were able to set up a square using spikes at the corners and string to connect them. Vanessa and I took turns measuring the position of limestone blocks and the dimensions of the wall and tomb. Archaeologists use a grid to create a record of where artifacts are found and to permit reconstruction of the site in the report. The typical grid square size is one meter by one meter but it can be adjusted to fit the needs of the project. In our situation, a six by six meter square was the minimum size needed to enclose the wall around the plot. A total of five days in the “garden” was all I could spend on this trip, during which time Vanessa and I were able to map two grid squares. Dr. Keith estimated that the area of the graveyard is 2,000 square meters, so you can see that this project won’t be completed any time soon, but that’s typical in archaeology. I can’t say we made any discoveries that changed our understanding of the graveyard but there was one unexpected thing. I noticed a thin, white material on the outside of a tomb and on the sides of a few plot walls. It looks like it could be white stucco but I couldn’t be sure. If it was, it represents an additional cost above what was necessary to build a plain limestone box and would have gleamed a brilliant white in the TCI sun. On my last day, I walked the entire grounds and examined the open tomb I mentioned earlier. I couldn’t see any remains but it was obvious that it’s suffering from decay like the others. Now that I’m back at the university, my time is spent planning a return to the graveyard in July to continue adding to the map and doing whatever archival work I can to help us tell the story of the people buried there. a 64 www.timespub.tc
astrolabe newsletter of the Turks & Caicos National Museum This is a real photo postcard (RPPC) of a canal leading from the sea to salt ponds on Grand Turk in 1905. Both the photograph and the above postcard are attributed to Edmund N. Coverley. This same photograph was used again in 1905 to produce a machine printed postcard. EDMUND NEALE COVERLEY A Glimpse of the Past Early photographers on Grand Turk. By Jeffrey Dodge Edmund Neale Coverley, one of the most active early photographers on Grand Turk at the beginning of the 20th century, has been the subject of several past articles in the Astrolabe. He is well known because many of his photographs were used to produce early picture postcards. The earliest postcards attributed to Coverley were probably produced and printed by the photographer himself in his darkroom on photographic paper designed with a pre-printed postcard back. These real photo postcards (RPPC) were produced between 1904 and 1906. Times of the Islands Winter 2018/19 65
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