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Society for California Archaeology NEWSLETTER Society for California Archaeology NEWSLETTER Volume 29 Number 1 January 1995 The Journey of the Frolic by Thomas N. Layton The day had not started well. The mosquitoes were There were three reasons why l was excited by an bad, and my students were finding small pieces of apparent connection between a shipwreck and the porcelain and green bottle glass in what we expected Mitom Pomo residents of Three Chop Village. First, to be a late prehistoric Mitom Pomo housepits. l'd the location of the wreck would tell us exactly what carefully chosen Three Chop Village [MEN-790) for part of the coast was visited by the people who lived excavation by my Summer 1984 field class. It lay in the houses. Second, if we could identify the wreck, within northern Pomo territory, and l expected it to we would have an exact date for at least one of the contain a late prehistoric assemblage of artifacts we house occupations. Finally, I realized that just as a could use as a starting point to work backwards in physician could inject a radioactive tracer into a vein time, applying the "Direct Historical Approach" to to facilitate viewing the entire circulatory system, we Pomoan prehistory. Linguists, arguing mainly from might be able to trace the entire settlement system of dialect geography, had hypothesized that prehistoric a Mitom Pomo tribelet at a particular instant in time Pomoan speakers expanded westward from a Clear by identifying these distinctive porcelain sherds in Lake homeland, displacing Yukian speakers. Mark Mendocino County archaeological sites. Basgall, working at Warm Springs, saw a dis­ continuity between his Skaggs and Dry Creek During the fall of 1984 1 began to research the .phases, which seemed to support the linguists. wreck's identity. My first lead came from Dorothy Three Chop Village, located 15 miles from the coast Bear, one of the founders of the Kelley House and midway between Willits and Fort Bragg, thus Museum in Mendocino. Dorothy told me a sport seemed an ideal location to begin our work. diver had collected a shoe and several large sherds of Chinese pottery from a nearby wreck, and had The small fragments of blue on white porcelain donated them anonymously to the Kelley House. She looked vaguely Asian, and over the next few days my said the donation had been arranged by Richard colleague Dwight Simons and l Tooker, an avocational historian, argued their meaning. He noted working as a volunteer at the the presence of Ming period Maritime Museum in San Fran­ ceramics at Drakes Bay, and sug­ cisco. gested a Manila galleon. Visual­ izing the Ben Cartwright family in I telephoned Richard, and he told the Bonanza television series. 1 me a sport diving acquaintance posited the "Hop Sing" hypothesis had read back issues of the Daily - a late 19th Century logging Alta California and had identified camp with a Chinese cook. the vessel as the brig Frolic, wrecked on California·s north One .afternoon, Dana Cole, the coast July 25, 1850, while bound local CDF ranger, dropped by to from Canton, China to San Fran­ see what we were finding. He said ~ cisco with a rich cargo of China his buddy, Dale Hartesveldt, had Frolic s/Jipmr~d-­ trade goods (Figures I & 2). Sev­ picked up identical pieces from a PI: Clhr1/h- eral days later Richard phoned wrecked "sampan" in a cove just me to say his friend, David north of Point Cabrillo. A few Buller, was willing to show me days later, Dana brought Dale his collection of artifacts from the and a plastic bag with twelve bar­ wreck of the Frolic. '1.acle encrusted sherds up to the .ite. Although I didn't realize it at 0 Thus, I entered the secret world he time, 1 bad embarked on an of wreckdivers. The vessel had Jutlandish tangent that would been "discovered" by them circa alter the course of my career. 1958, and over the succeeding Figure 1 : The Frolic wrecksite. (Continued on page 3) SCA Executive Board 1994-95 President's Message by Julia G. Costello President - Julia Costello The Holidays are· over and, for most, we are back a1 Foothill Resources, Ltd. our winter's work. For the SCA Board, our Januan P; ·o. Box 288 meeting is where we approve the 1995 budget. Ir.. Mokehimne Hill, CA 95245 brief, just over 70% of our income comes from mem­ w/h (209) 286-1182, FAX (209) 286-1794 bership dues and about 25% from proceeds from the Annual Meeting. Our largest single expenditure is for the Newsletter, followed by publication of the Pro­ Immediate Past President - John Johnson ceedings, and then Business Office expenses. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History balance of our spending supports SCA committees 2559 Puesta del Sol Road and projects. Your Board is fiscally conservative Santa Barbara, CA 93105 and we have been making regular deposits into an w: (805) 682-4711 Ext. 306, investment account for long-term savings. Archae­ FAX (805) 569-3170 h : (805) 964-8559 ology Week is now largely self sustaining through generous donations from agencies and individuals. President Elect - Mary Maniery PAR Environmental Services, Inc. A major organizational challenge came last summer P.O. Box 160756 when our Newsletter editor of nearly five years, Valerie Levulett. told us that she was ready to pass Sacramento, CA 95816-0756 this position on to someone else. Under her guid­ w: (916) 739-8356, FAX (916).739-0626 ance, the Newsletter has matured as a professional h: (916) 456-6818 and informative publication representing all seg­ ments of our diverse archaeological community. Southern Vice-Pres - Michael Sampson With six annual issues, the Newsletter is not only Department of Parks & Recreation our largest budget item, it is the major vehicle of 8885 Rio San Diego Dr., Ste 270 communication between SCA members; it is the glue San Diego, CA 92108 that holds us all together. The Newsletter Editor is w: (619) 220-5323, FAX (619) 298-6241 responsible for appointing and coordinating Contrib­ h: (619) 283-5960 uting Editors, for soliciting and receiving written contributions from the membership, for keeping the membership informed of upcoming events, and for Northern Vice-President - Jeny Johnson producing all this clean and accurate text on time. Department ofAnthropology California State University lam pleased to announce that an able successor to 6000 J Street Valerie has been found in Sharon Waechter. Sharon Sacramento, CA 95819-6106 received an M.A. from Davis in Anthropology in 1979 w: {916) 278-6572, h: (916) 663-2571 and an M.A. in English (with an emphasis on writ­ ing) in 1983. She worked for six years for the Forest Secretary -Kathleen L. Hull Service (Mendocino and El Dorado National Forest), & and two years for the BLM in Arcata. For the past Dames Moore three years she has been with Far Western Anthro­ 60 Declaration Dr., Ste B pological Research Group Inc .. in Davis. With her Chico, CA 95926 background in both English and Anthropology, w: (916) 893-9675, FAX (916) 893-9682 Sharon comes well qualified as our new Editor. She h : (916) 894-8169 is also interested in sites from both the prehistoric and historic time periods. Even better, Sharon has Treasurer - Constance Cameron an enviable gift for bringing order and precision into Museum of Anthropology manuscripts. and enjoys the task! Sharon is s up· California State University ported by Far Western, who has generously offered Fullerton, CA 92634 to absorb a portion of the time and communication costs which are part of this job. Sharon will assist w: (714) 773-3977, mess (714) 773-3626 Valerie with the March issue and will assume the h; (310) 696-6133, FAX (714) 871-5345 full Editorship in April. We are all looking fmward to her term with enthusiasm. SCA Business Office - Kathleen Long Department of Anthropology For those of you who might not be aware of the pro­ California State University cess, the final Newsletter teA.1: is sent by the Editor Fullerton, CA 92634 (Continued on page 6) (714) 256-0332 SCA Newsletter 29 (1) 2 January 1995 shipping arrivals and departures columns of 19th Frolic Century newspapers - the Canton Register, the Bombay Times, and the Baltimore Sun. Eventually, I (Continued from page 1) discovered she was a classic Baltimore clipper, built by the Gardner Brothers of Fells Point (Figure 5), and my research expanded to investigate marine iuarter of a century at least thirteen divers - many technology and the evolution of that vessel form, of whom did not ,lrnow each other - had collected from its use in privateering during the American Rev­ from it. My task was to find these divers and gain olution and the War of 1812, to its eventual employ­ their confidence in order to document the ceramics. 1 ment running blockades as a slaver during the spent the next five years tracking down divers. most 1830s. of whom had a cardboard box or two of artifacts. ln the course of those five years the project grew. incor­ Working from the master carpenters' report for the porating new objectives. Frolic, I finally was able to trace the vessel to the firm [ for whom she had been built in 1844, Augustine ! Heard & Co. of Boston and Canton; and, ultimately, to an unbelievable lode of information - the Heard firm's business papers. Around the turn of the century, the newly estab­ lished Harvard Business School instituted a uniquely original approach to teaching business - the "case method approach." Accordingly, it had solicited the papers of defunct businesses. The Augustine Heard firm had gone belly up in 1876, and Harvard had subsequently acquired their archives - 264 shelf feet of paper in all! The archivist at the Baker Library informed me there was a 7-inch packet of documents labelled Frolic, so in June 1989, I arrived in Boston planning to spend a week - maybe two - at the Baker, with plenty of spare time to soak up New England maritime his­ tory.
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