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This knife was discovered on the Merklein site, 14PH303, in Phillips County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1959. The knife is made of Smoky Hill silicified chalk and may have first served as an Archaic projectile point. The beveled edges indicate that its end use was as a knife. It would have been hafted to a handle. The site was recorded in 1957 by Roscoe Wilmeth, Assistant Museum Director and first State Archeologist of Kansas.
Date: Unknown
Item Number: 439687
Call Number: 14PH303 59.67.2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 439687
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Knife
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Smoky Hill Jasper
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Phillips
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
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