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The use for this highly polished bone tool is uncertain, but one end is worn as though it were used as an awl. Awls were used as a perforating tool in soft materials, like hides, and possibly in basket and pottery manufacture. The bone tool was collected from a site in Wyandotte County with multiple occupations from the Middle Ceramic to Historic periods. It was donated in 2002 to the Kansas Historical Society.
Date: 1000-1850 CE
Item Number: 449249
Call Number: 14WY319 2002.D.5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 449249
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Awl
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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