Here, Erickson piled together three interconnected elements of global trade: blue-and-white Chinese porcelain for export, a shell-shaped English teapot for Chinese tea, and locally sourced clay to reference Native rights to American soil. Its title, Dragon Junk Teapot, is a play on the word junk, both a type of Chinese merchant ship and debris found on the ocean floor. To recreate the shape of an 18th-century English teapot, Erickson studied works similar to the Pecten Shell Teapot in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s collection.