Other materials from trash pit, including bone button blanks.

The pit contained large quantities of butchered animal bone, and it was thought to represent domestic debris potentially associated with the rear kitchen dependency at Madame John’s. It also contained 22 bone button disks, presumably associated with discarded smoke-damaged clothing. Those enslaved by the DeLanzos household likely would have lived and worked in the detached kitchen. At the time of Manuel DeLanzos’s death, an inventory of the estate lists six enslaved individuals belonging to him, including “a Creole mulatto named Pierre, cook, servant, and coachman; Joseph, Creole negro aged 18 years, servant; a creole mulatress named Prudence, aged 18 years; a negress named Claire, excellent laundress and ironer aged 35 years; a negress named Guiny aged 23 years, servant; and a negress named Charlot, aged 48, servant” (New Orleans NOtarial Archives, N. Broutin, 3/29/1813, cited in Dawdy 1998:43).