In 1966 the National Historic Parks and Sites Branch conducted archaeological investigations in and near the village of Yuquot, British Columbia, under the direction of W.J. Folan. Excavators recovered sherds of at least 483 ceramic objects, all of them from the historic period. The ceramics represented two distinct components. The earlier consisted of Mexican majolica and coarse Hispano-Mexican earthenware, remnants of the Spanish garrison that occupied the site in 1789 and from 1790 to 1795. The second component, by far the larger, was deposited by the Nootkans after they reoccupied the site in 1795. Included in the Nootkan reoccupation component were eight examples of mid-18th to early 19th-century British pottery, but the majority was late 19th- and early 20th-century table- kitchen ware from Britain, China, probably France, Germany, Japan, the USA, and perhaps Canada, in about that order. Ceramic vessals evidently did not begin to supplant native forms until the last two decades of the 19th century, but the choice of ceramic vessels was probably affected by traditional Nootkan practices and cultural biases. The relative scarcity of mid-20th-century ceramics may well reflect the rapid decline of the village's population during the early decades of that century.