The industrious exiles: an analysis of flaked glass tools from the Leprosarium at Kalawao, Moloka'i
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Flexner, James; Morgan, Colleen L.
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Archaeological investigation of the leprosarium at Kalawao, Moloka'i, Hawaii, recovered a small assemblage of flaked glass tools, used by people diagnosed with Hansen's disease (leprosy) and exiled to the remote Kalaupapa peninsula between 1866 and 1969. Flaked glass is commonly documented on postcontact archaeological sites in Oceania and elsewhere and can be considered an expression of indigenous tool technologies in an introduced material. The Kalawao assemblage is remarkable because it...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2013 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/31939 |
Book Title: | The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture |
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