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This pipe was collected from the surface of a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) site with previous occupations during the Early Ceramic period. The pipe, manufactured on Kansas pipestone, appears to have never been smoked and may have broken during manufacture. The soft fine grained material of the Kansas pipestone enabled the pipe's maker to carve it into its elbow-like shape. A groove runs perpendicular to the bowl rim and incised lines are found on all sides of the bowl and remaining stem, in addition to modern scars. Pipes were used during trade negotiations and to mark special occasions. In Kansas, these pipes are generally made by American Indians between 1650 to 1850.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 448951
Call Number: 14MN326-123
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 448951
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Smoking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Pipe
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Pipestone - Kansas Pipestone
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - Marion
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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