[Leica] PAW 3

[jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

What are they made of? Are they actual egg shells that have lasted 200
years, or stone in the shape of eggs?


On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:24:47 -0500, Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu> 
wrote:
> Early last week I made this image in my capacity as a member of the
> advisory board of the Institute for Historical Biology here at the
> College.  These artifacts, which are currently the subject of
> investigation, were recovered from a plantation site in coastal South
> Carolina.  Their purpose is presently unknown, but they are remarkable
> evidence of some degree of Arabic script literacy among presumably
> Muslim slaves in late 18th century North America.  This sort of
> archeological evidence is fugitive, to say the least, and we are very
> excited to have acquired them.
> 
> So it ain't art, but I hope it's interesting, in the event.
> 
> http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/PAW/eggs.htm
> 
> Chandos
> 
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