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These two pipestone pendants were recovered from the Sharps Creek site, a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village in McPherson County during the 1993 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school. The two pendants have different attachment methods. One used notches on either side of top portion of the pendant while the other had a hole drilled through the top.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 440070
Call Number: 14MP408-2245-1; 14MP408-2482-2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 440070
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Pendant
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Pipestone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Sharps Creek
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Adornment
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - McPherson
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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