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These two gaming pieces were recovered from excavations during the 1977 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Tobias site in Rice County. These gaming pieces were likely made from broken ceramic vessels and ground into a circular shape. The Tobias site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village site that had dense artifact deposits (including chain mail brought to Kansas by sixteenth-century Spanish explorers), house remains and numerous deep trash-filled storage pits. The site is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 1400-1700 CE
Item Number: 313821
Call Number: 14RC8-134-10; 14RC8-211-75
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 313821
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Play
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ceramic
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
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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