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List of Figures xxxi

Fig. 12.2 Raymond Aker’s reconstruction of a
sixteenth-century galleon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Fig. 12.3 The investigation of the remote site on the west coast
of Baja California in 1999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Fig. 12.4 The desert shore with low dunes and sand flats
covered with shells in Baja coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Fig. 12.5 Porcelain sherds were covered by 10 cm of blowing
sand in four days. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Fig. 12.6 A sheet of lead with iron tack heads is characteristic
of Spanish and Portuguese long-range trading
ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Fig. 12.7 Spanish-colonial coins heavily encrusted with sand
and patination products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Fig. 12.8 The piece of eight weighs approximately 1 ounce, or
28 g identi!ed as production in Mexico City in 1572
and in Potosi, Upper Peru, in 1574 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Fig. 12.9 European form sounding lead from the site. . . . . . . . . 197
Fig. 12.10 This small “splash”, or dribble, of lead
from the site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Fig. 12.11 Compass gimbals similar to the !ve other ones of
English, Basque and Dutch shipwrecks dating from
1545 through 1596 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Fig. 12.12 Compass and sounding lead replicas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Fig. 12.13 Iron-core lead shot was a common type in
sixteenth-century Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Fig. 12.14 Pottery fragment identi!ed as western Iberian type . . . 199
Fig. 12.15 Iberian “olive jars” descend from the classical
amphorae which Spaniards still used in their trade . . . 200
Fig. 12.16 Beeswax remains on the site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Fig. 12.17 Stoneware Martaban jar fragment from the site. . . . . . 201
Fig. 12.18 Zhangzhou ceramic ware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Fig. 12.19 Zhangzhou ceramic ware featuring a black-faced
spoonbill bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Fig. 12.20 Jindezhen ceramic ware phoenix plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Fig. 12.21 Jindezhen ceramic wares with high quality, and
incompletely !red plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Fig. 12.22 Bowl with a pattern of Xi Wang Mu (the Queen
Mother of the Western Paradise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Fig. 12.23 Landscape bowls transferring the design from scroll
painting to porcelains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Figs. 12.24–12.26 Porcelain wares made for export trade
with Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205