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    • Artifact ID #: 0169
    • Excavation Unit: Locality 30
    • Level: Unknown
    • Identification: Chinese porcelain bowl or cup rim, “Bamboo” style design. This style bowl is called “Bamboo” due to the unique blue or gray vertical designs that were intended to represent shoots and leaves of the bamboo plant. Unlike “Four Seasons” or celadon, there was a limited range of “Bamboo” style pottery, and nearly all known examples are bowls. “Bamboo” was a the most common style of bowl used by the Chinese on the Central Pacific, Southern Pacific, and Northern Pacific Railroads due to its low cost. In mining camps like German Gulch, “Bamboo” is also most common before the 1890s, after which celadon and “Four Seasons” began to dominate the market.


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