Santa Catalina de Guale Mission

This chapter is an attempt to refine the classification of Mexican majolica ceramics from Spanish Colonial sites by using chemical data obtained by neutron activation analysis. The ceramics examined came primarily from excavations in Mexico City and from the Santa Catalina de Guale Mission site, St. Catherines Island, GA. The majolica types from these sites are both Spanish and Mexican and date from the 16th to the late 17th century. A rationale for the chemical classification of Mexico City and Puebla production is proposed. 

The data discussed in this chapter include the results of instrumental neutron activation analysis conducted at two different laboratories. The analyses of the Santa Catalina de Guale Mission samples, most of the Metropolitan Cathedral samples, and the modern Puebla samples were conducted at the National Bureau of Standards reactor by using procedures described by Blackman (16) and in Table I. The remainder of the samples were analyzed at Brookhaven National Laboratories (BNL), and reported in Olin et al. (3). Because different comparator standards were used in the two laboratories, all the BNL data were normalized to the Smithsonian Institution standard according to the procedure described by Blackman (17). The conversion factors are presented in Table I. 

Appendix B. Majolica Ceramics from Excavations at Santa Catalina de Guale Mission, St. Catherines Island, Georgia... 

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