“Goods to clothe themselves”
Winterthur Portfolio2009Vol. 43(1), pp. 115–140
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Abstract
One of William Penn’s first orders to James Logan, his provincial secretary, was to increase Pennsylvania’s share of the fur trade. This essay utilizes Logan’s accounts and the archaeological record from Conestoga Town, an important eighteenth‐century Pennsylvania trading and treaty town, to investigate the place of European‐made cloth in Native lives. Cloth and clothing played a larger role in the economic and diplomatic worlds of Pennsylvania than previously indicated. This essay explores Native acquisition of European textiles, how they used them to create particular physical identities, and how the cloth trade created and reinforced relationships between Natives and Europeans.
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