Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part III: Personal and Recreational Materials
Creators: name: Hunt, William J.
Publisher: name: United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Williams County, North Dakota
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/21645/williams-county-north-dakota
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
subject: 19th Century
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5147/19th-century
subject: Historic Native American
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/30/historic-native-american
subject: Metis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/7502/metis
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Euroamerican
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/28/euroamerican
subject: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/2797/fort-union-trading-post-national-historic-site
subject: 32WI17
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/2776/32wi17
subject: Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/256/domestic-structures
subject: Trading Post
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/569/trading-post
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Shell
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/14/shell
subject: Textile
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/16/textile
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Hide
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/18/hide
subject: Fauna
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: Glass
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/6/glass
subject: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
subject: Mineral
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/12/mineral
subject: Trading Post
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/3234/trading-post
subject: Historic Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/2259/historic-site
subject: Fort
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subject: Personal Adornment Items
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/84361/personal-adornment-items
subject: Material Culture
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/3851/material-culture
subject: Collections Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/3/collections-research

description: National Park Service archaeological excavations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site from 1968 through 1972. Although a preliminary report describing the extent and nature of the excavations was produced shortly after the close of each season's fieldwork, until recently the extensive collection of artifacts and other materials recovered during that work has remained largely unanalyzed and unreported for want of sufficient funding. A systematic effort to analyze and report all classes of material in the Fort Union collection was initiated in 1978 under the direction of Dick Ping Hsu with assistance from Leslie A. Perry. When Hsu transferred from the Midwest Archeological Center in 1981 and Perry left the National Park Service in 1982, this work was continued by William J. Hunt, Jr. These efforts have resulted in a series of manuscript reports, each focusing on a particular aspect of the 1968-1972 work at Fort Union. The series, entitled "Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports," consists of a volume (Part I) by Hunt which critically assesses the fieldwork accomplished during the four seasons of work at the site; four volumes, with sections authored by Hunt or Perry or both, which describe the food-related artifacts (Part II); personal and recreational materials (Part III); the firearms, trapping and fishing equipment (Part IV); and the buttons (Part V) recovered from the site. Another volume (Part VI), by Carole A. Angus and Carl R. Falk, summarizes information about the vertebrate faunal remains from the Fort Union excavations. As more classes of material in this large and important collection are analyzed, more descriptive reports will be completed in this series. This report is Part III of the series.