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These six gunflints are just a few of those recovered during excavations at Fool Chief's Village, a Kansa village in Shawnee County. These gunflints were all quarried and manufactured in southern England. The top row of gunflints were likely used in a pistol and both have a single dorsal arris. Those on the bottom row have two dorsal arrises. Fool Chief's Village was the site of the 2012 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school, though excavations continued into 2013.
Date: 1830-1844 CE
Item Number: 442247
Call Number: 14SH305-3009-1; -260-68; -551-1; -3532-1; -516-1; -3011-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 442247
Collections - Archeology
Date - 1830s
Date - 1840s
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Fool Chief's Village
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Tribes - Kansa
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
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