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These five modified bones were shaped, polished and had holes drilled into their ends, possibly for use as an ornament or pendant. They were recovered at the 1992 and 1993 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Sharps Creek site, a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village in McPherson County.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 440079
Call Number: 14MP408-416-1; 1074-16; 2649-2; 2948-1; 2950-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 440079
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Pendant
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Sharps Creek
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - McPherson
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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