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These fragments of chain mail were recovered from excavations at the 1992 and 1993 Kansas Archeology Training Program field schools at the Sharps Creek site. The chain mail, a series of small metal rings linked together, was brought to Kansas by Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century. The Sharps Creek site was a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village in McPherson County.
Date: 1541-1800 CE
Item Number: 440073
Call Number: 14MP408-275-1; 14MP408-790; 14MP408-2226-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 440073
Collections - Archeology
Military
Military - Equipment
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - American Indians
People - European Americans
People - European Americans - Spanish
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
Thematic Time Period - Exploration, 1541 - 1820
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