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These twelve bone awls were recovered from the Saxman site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2016. Awls such as these are usually made from deer bone. One awl is indeed made from the left ulna of a deer. They were used to make holes in soft material, like hides, and possibly in basket and pottery manufacturing. The Saxman site, a large Great Bend aspect village, was occupied by the ancestral Wichita peoples.
Date: 1500-1650 CE
Item Number: 313992
Call Number: 14RC301 2016.A.62 through 2016.A.73
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 313992
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Awl
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Wichita
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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