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Blue and white rice bowl from the Market Street Chinatown exhibit.
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Porcelaneous Stoneware Rice Bowl

Market Street Chinatown, 1880s context

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Archaeologists found this bowl in a redwood-lined trash pit near an adobe building probably leased to the Tuck Wo grocery store.

The exhibit identifies the material as porcelaneous stoneware made in southern China and widely used by Chinese immigrant laborers in California.

Microscopic residue research on bowls and soil samples points to rice, grains, vegetables, meat, and fish in the community's foodways.