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These gunflints were recovered during excavations at Fool's Chief Village, a Kansa village site in Shawnee County. 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 three gunflints were all quarried and manufactured in France, as is indicated by their honey-yellow or blonde color. All are square gunflints with a single dorsal arris. The small one on the left may have been used with a pistol.
Date: 1828-1844
Item Number: 442240
Call Number: 14SH305-3498-1, -3707-1, -3003-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 442240
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Fool Chief's Village
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Tribes - Kanza (Kaw)
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
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