Rice Bowls in the Delta

Artifacts Recovered from the 1915 Asian Community of Walnut Grove, California

by Julia G. Costello and Mary L. Maniery

Book cover: Rice Bowls in the Delta

Extent: 95 pages

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Subjects: American Studies, Art & Art History, Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions

Series: Occasional Papers

Series volume number: 16

Language: English

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(July 1988)

ISBN: 9781938770753

Price: $20.00

The artifacts recovered from the Walnut Grove are a significant addition to the research of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Asian material culture. Of particular significance is the large collection of recovered Japanese ceramics. Deposited en masse following a devastating fire in 1915, they represent the table wares used by Walnut Grove’s Japanese residents from ca. 1896 to 1915. Primarily products of the Meiji Period’s technological revolution, these inexpensive porcelains have been largely overlooked in studies of Japanese pottery.

  • By (author) Julia G. Costello
  • By (author) Mary L. Maniery