Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean 1500-1800

This long-awaited follow-up to Deagans first volume on ceramics glassware and beads focuses on the portable personal objects owned and used by the residents of Spanish colonial America. These objects are not only of Spanish origin; the collection includes many English French Dutch German Italian and American pieces as well. Deagan not only provides an authoritative source of identification for these items but also draws extensively on colonial documents travel accounts paintings and museum collections as well as other contemporary sources to suggest specific functions of the items and the meanings they held for the people who used them. She documents and demonstrates how the objects were made and exchanged in the Americas and explores how they embody Hispanic cultural identities attitudes and belief systems.