The residents of Otstonwakin, an eighteenth-century multinational Native American village in Pennsylvania, were involved in extensive trade networks that resulted in the incorporation, modification, and selective adoption of a variety of European-manufactured goods and technologies. Although Native Americans in the fur trade era like those at Otstonwakin negotiated the exchange of a wide array of commodities including alcohol, firearms, iron tools, and brass kettles, the most commonly traded commodity was cloth. Despite its role as a cornerstone commodity, colonial trade cloth has received considerably less scholarly attention than more durable objects largely because very few textiles have survived into the twenty-first century. This article reports on a rare find, a preserved European textile from Otstonwakin's burial ground recovered in the 1930s and hitherto unanalyzed. By analyzing the fabric fragments, sewing thread, and lace with metallic thread, I explore the material and social negotiation of colonial identity on the Pennsylvania frontier.

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土著世界中的帝国结构：对从 18 世纪 Otstonwakin 中回收的贸易布料的分析

Otstonwakin 是宾夕法尼亚州一个 18 世纪的多民族美洲原住民村庄，其居民参与了广泛的贸易网络​​，导致各种欧洲制造的商品和技术的合并、修改和选择性采用。尽管毛皮贸易时代的美洲原住民（如 Otstonwakin 的那些人）谈判了各种商品的交换，包括酒精、枪支、铁制工具和黄铜水壶，但最常交易的商品是布料。尽管它是一种基石商品，但与更耐用的物品相比，殖民贸易布料受到的学术关注要少得多，这主要是因为很少有纺织品能幸存到 21 世纪。这篇文章报道了一个罕见的发现，一种来自 Otstonwakin' 的保存完好的欧洲纺织品 其墓地于 1930 年代恢复，迄今未进行分析。通过分析织物碎片、缝纫线和带有金属线的花边，我探索了宾夕法尼亚边境殖民地身份的物质和社会协商。