Campus Stories - Barbara Voss

Partially reconstructed Double Happiness rice bowl surrounded by shards of Bamboo rice bowls. The names "Double Happiness" and "Bamboo" refer to the very popular painted motifs painted on the bowl.
Campus Stories

Stanford exhibit of San Jose’s lost Chinatown brings archaeology out of the laboratory

Visitors to the Stanford Archaeology Center find modern glass cases filled with fragments of a lost city – wooden toothbrushes and combs, buttons and leather shoes, ceramic bowls and soup spoons. These are the remnants of the once thriving Chinatown community in downtown San José. Today, these archaeological findings populate City Beneath the City, an art installation designed by…

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A partial 'double happiness bowl'
Campus Stories

Stanford anthropology team prepares fractured, historic objects for art gallery debut

Stanford students taking Barbara Voss’ anthropology classes have been sifting through San Jose’s 19th century Market Street Chinatown remains for years, but the thousands of artifacts that have been excavated have never been on view to the public, until now. A selection of 60 artifacts has been assembled to create City Beneath The City at…

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