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Glass Experiments: Jamestown sand (Jamestown-US-0040)
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Glass Experiments: Jamestown sand (Jamestown-US-0040)

Maker Atelier NL (Dutch, founded 2007)
Artist Lonny van Ryswyck (Dutch, born 1978)
Artist Nadine Sterk (Dutch, born 1977)
Date2020
MediumGlass bottle filled with Jamestown sand
DimensionsBottles: 7 1/2 × 2 15/16 in. (19.1 × 7.4 cm)
ClassificationsGlass
Credit LineGift of Atelier NL
Object number2022.35.13
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DescriptionThe sand was collected by Mary Anna Hartley, Senior Staff Archaeologist at Jametown Rediscovery, on December 17, 2020. Ms. Hartley shares the sand's significance: “The color of this iron-rich sand would have excited the colonists. Similar sands held gold, which they hoped to find. However, the coastal plain has no gold, and the colony struggled to be sustainable during its early years. The possibility of gold was one of the many misconceptions the English held about America.” Atelier NL sand archive sample identification number: Jamestown-US-0040.
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