A 17th century Arabian silver coin that research shows was struck in 1693 in Yemen, rests against a piece of 17th century broken pottery featuring a likeness of Queen Mary, on a table in Warwick, R.I., Thursday, March 11, 2021. The coin was found at a farm, in Middletown, R.I., in 2014 by metal detectorist Jim Bailey, who contends it was plundered by English pirate Henry Every in 1695 from Muslim pilgrims sailing home to India after a pilgrimage to Mecca. (AP Photo/Steven Senne).
Friday, April 1, 2022 - 3:30pm
Frederick Hartt Lecture in the History of Art: Nancy Um, Professor of Art History, Binghamton University
"Materializing Silver Flows across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans: On Seventeenth-Century Arabian Coins in Colonial New England"
Over the past decade, archaeologists and metal detectorists have unearthed a corpus of silver coins minted in Yemen at colonial sites in New England, thereby shedding light upon unacknowledged seventeenth-century connections between the mountains of the southern Arabian Peninsula and the shores of North America. This talk delves into the meaning and significance of these Yemeni coins, tracing material connections between distant yet intertwined monetary systems, farflung oceanic networks of value, and the dispersed legacies of early modern objects crafted of silver.
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