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These four bone rasps were recovered from the Saxman village site in Rice County and donated in 2016 to the Kansas Historical Society. The Saxman site is a Late Great Bend aspect village site lived in by protohistoric Wichita Indians. Archeologists believe that artifacts like these rasps could have been used as musical instruments by drawing a stick across the grooves.
Date: 1500 CE-1650
Item Number: 313966
Call Number: 14RC301 2016.A.15; .16; .17; .18
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 313966
Date - 1500-1599
Date - 1600-1699
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Rasp
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Wichita
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10,000 BCE - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10,000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic/Protohistoric (1500 - 1820 CE)
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