An introduction to the project.

Between the 17th century and 2010, there have been hundreds of people associated with La Belle.  I'm only one of them. My name is Eric, and I'm doing the La Belle inventory for the Corpus Christi Museum and the Texas Historical Commission.  I'm also going to be writing this blog about the process.

At the museum, we have somewhere just under two million artifacts from La Belle, ranging from big pieces of iron down to small fragments of insects.  Over the next year, I'm going to be counting them a category at a time.  Archaeology involves a lot of paperwork, and one of the big jobs is to make sure all the paperwork matches each other, and most importantly, matches the actual object.  If an object is a piece of Saintonge ceramic (you'll hear all about ceramics pretty soon), all those databases better say that it's a piece of Saintonge - and the ID numbers need to match.  I'll be going into the process as we go along.

This blog's going to be a running summary of the inventory project.  It'll have entries about the big categories of artifacts, as well as some about particularly interesting artifacts from the collection.

Of course, if you want to see any of these artifacts for yourself, you'll have to come by the Corpus Christi Museum or any of the other La Salle Odyssey museums sometime.