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View PDF. The year favorably marked the official birth of Minoan Archaeology. A new field in ancient history, art and culture was about to open. A young woman, Miss Harriet Boyd Smith College ventured into recently liberated Crete with a friend, Blanche Williams, to seek a potential site for excavation. Following the advice of Arthur Evans, she directed her attention to the area around the isthmus of Hierapetra and the Gulf of Mirabello on the northeastern part of the island.

In , and Miss Boyd returned to Crete to excavate at Gournia, one of the sites located in the survey. The field season was the last that she was to spend in Crete. In Miss Boyd married Charles Hawes, an English anthropologist, and her days of active field work came to an end. This catalogue, written in a notebook in pencil, has recently come into the possession of the University Museum.

Hawes lists each object under its general category, adds an illustration or sketch of the object, provides a full description and mentions its location.

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Objects in the Heraklion Museum are given their inventory number. Objects located in Philadelphia are so designated. This catalogue is a valuable tool for the study of the Gournia artifacts. It is also an interesting historical document and a monument to the thoroughness, the analytical mind and the scholarship of Harriet Boyd Hawes.

The settlement of Gournia is a small urban community with narrow, winding paved streets lined with small modest houses. The artifacts from the houses in the town are also modest and have furnished students of the Minoan period with a complete picture of the paraphernalia of everyday life. Utilitarian pottery abounds at Gournia and is amply illustrated in the Gournia publication.