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This complete bone awl was just one of many bone tools that were recovered during excavation in 1995 at the Kermit Hayes No. 1 site. Awls were usually made from deer bone and used as a perforating tool in soft material, like hides, and possibly in basket and pottery manufacturing. The artifacts were donated in 2007 to the Kansas Historical Society. The site, atop a ridge in Rice County, was a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village. It is part of an Archaeological District for the National Registration of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 447951
Call Number: 14RC3-12-7 2007.E Hayes donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447951
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Awl
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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