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Title
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Bone Buttons and Button Blank
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Description
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Students, almshouse residents, and homemakers all crafted buttons out of cleaned cow bones. The carving required few tools and little skill. The incomplete button blank on the center of this board still shows a fragment of the larger bone from which it was carved.
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Contributor
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Lucy Davis (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner.
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Creator
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Lucy Davis
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Date
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Late 1800s; photograph, July 2018
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Format
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Bone buttons on cardboard backing.
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Publisher
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Rutgers University-Camden
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Relation
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Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation.
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Rights
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Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts
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Source
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Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J.
