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Hand painted designs on dishes are common throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. These seven small sherds of dishes show various fragments of two popular hand painted motifs found at many historic sites. These were collected from the Plowboy site in Shawnee county and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. The Plowboy site was home to the Kansa, the Potawatomi, and Euro-Americans. At various times, the site contained a farm, a trading post, and a post office with nearby military trails, Mormon routes, a railroad and the California-Oregon trail.
Date: 1840-1900
Item Number: 447135
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447135
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Home and Family - Daily life - Housework - Dishwashing
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - American Indians - Tribes - Kanza (Kaw)
People - American Indians - Tribes - Potawatomi
People - European Americans
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
Thematic Time Period - Trails, 1821 - 1880
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