Shown are six gunflints of the many that were found at the Canville Trading Post in Neosho County near the Osage Reservation. They were donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1994. Gunflints were used to generate a spark in a flintlock musket or pistol to ignite the gunpowder and as strike-a-lights for lighting a fire. These six gunflints were all quarried and manufactured in France, as is indicated by their honey-yellow or blonde color. Left to right they show two square gunflint with two dorsal arrises, two somewhat "D" shaped gunflints, and two small square gunflints, possibly used with a pistol or as strike-a-lights. The Canville Trading Post was established in 1847 by A. B. Canville. When the Osage reservation land was ceded to the United States in 1870, the Osage left for Oklahoma and Canville followed in 1872.
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French Gunflints from the Canville Trading Post, 14NO396 - 4