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This brass thimble was worn to protect the finger and to push the needle through material while sewing. Brass thimbles were frequently trade items between the trader and Native American groups. Sometimes the new owner would punch a hole in the end and suspend a bead inside, making a tinkler or small bell. It was recovered from the Fanning site in Doniphan County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1981. The Fanning site was a Late Ceramic to early Contact period village occupied most likely by the Kansa.
Date: 1600-1700 CE
Item Number: 315408
Call Number: 14DP1 1981.B.277
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 315408
Collections - Archeology
Date - 1600-1699
Date - 1700-1799
Date - 1800-1819
Home and Family - Clothing
Home and Family - Daily life - Housework - Sewing
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Tribes - Kanza (Kaw)
Places - Counties - Doniphan
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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