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This gunflint was recovered during excavations in 2014 of the Adair Cabin site, home of Reverend Samuel and Florella Brown Adair and their family, in Osawatomie, Kansas. Gunflints were used to generate a spark in a flintlock musket or pistol to ignite the gunpowder and as strike-a-lights for lighting a fire. This gunflint was quarried and manufactured in France, as is indicated by it's honey-yellow or blonde color. The square gunflint has one dorsal arris. Osawatomie and the Adairs were much involved with the abolitionist movement during the "Bleeding Kansas" years.
Date: 1855-1912
Item Number: 446279
Call Number: 14MM327-633-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446279
Collections - Archeology
Military - Weapons - Firearms
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - European Americans
Places - Cities and towns - Osawatomie
Places - Counties - Miami
Places - Historic sites - John Brown Museum
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
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