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Large cylindrical copper kettle with handles. This kettle is known as a "caso." It is like ones used for general cooking on the Santa Fe Trail. It was a common practice to rivet patches on such vessels. The green sulphate corrosion was often scraped off to be used as a coloring agent in paint or dye or as an additive in medicinal compounds.
Date: between 1800 and 1880
Item Number: 432878
KSHS Identifier: 1985.190.1
Collections - Museum
Date - 1800-1820
Date - 1830s
Date - 1840s
Date - 1850s
Date - 1854-1860
Date - 1861-1869
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Materials - Food Processing - Kettle
Places - International - Mexico
Transportation - Trails - Santa Fe
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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