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Additional Note on Chinese Soapstone Carvings From Meso-America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Robert F. Heizer*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

Extract

S. V. R. Cammann's interesting analysis of the Chinese stone carving found by Gann in a Maya site in Quintana Roo has indeed thrown some explanatory light on this, and other pieces of the same general type. Zelia Nuttall (1910) mentioned a “soap-stone teapot“ from the island of Sacrificios, and says that “it gave rise to much speculation, especially as similar ones were found by respectable authorities at Tepaca (on the ancient high road to Puebla) and in the Huaxteca.“ Nuttall says further, “The well vouched for fact that the teapot was actually found on the island of Sacrificios can doubtless be explained by the employment of the island by the Spaniards, during centuries, as a lading place for merchandise from the Philippines and China, after it had been brought overland by mule-back from Acapulco to Vera Cruz, to be shipped from thence to Spain.“

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Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953 

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References

Nuttall, Z. 1910. The Island of Sacrificios. American Anthropologist, Vol. 12, pp. 257–95.Google Scholar
Meighan, C. W. and Heizer, R. F. 1952. Archaeological Explorarion of Sixteenth-Century Indian Mounds at Drake’s Bay. California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 31, pp. 98–108 Google Scholar