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Shown are nine pipe drills that were collected from the Saxman site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. Pipe drills, like all drills, were used to bore holes in softer materials than the drill material itself, such as soft stone. The pinkish color of one of the drills indicates that it had been heat treated to improve knapping quality of the chert. The Saxman site, a large Great Bend aspect village, was occupied by the ancestral Wichita.
Date: 1500-1650 CE
Item Number: 447025
Call Number: 14RC301 2017.F Weimer donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447025
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Drill
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Permian Chert
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 - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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