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This fragment of pipestone was recovered at an archeological site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2013. The function of the artifact is unknown and it may have been a work in progress. The soft, fine-grain pipestone material enabled the carver to shape and smooth the artifact and bevel the edges on two sides. The site is part of what archeologists call the Little River Focus of the Great Bend aspect, whose people practiced fishing, hunting, gathering, and agriculture and are ancestral to the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.
Date: 1400-1499 CE
Item Number: 507203
Call Number: 14RC410 2013.B.3 Taylor donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 507203
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Pipestone
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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