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These five porcelain doll fragments were recovered from the Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams Dugout site during the 2006 excavations by Washburn University and the 2007 Kansas Archeology Training Program. The collections from Washburn University were later donated to the Kansas Historical Society. The fragments include a portion of black hair & eyebrows along with a portion of the doll's face, a fragment of a doll's left hand and three pink cheek fragments. This domestic site was related to the settlement of Nicodemus, Kansas, an all black community in western Kansas.
Date: 1877-1910
Item Number: 442327
Call Number: 14GH102 RC
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 442327
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Children - Girls
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Play - Toys
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams dugout
Objects and Artifacts - Recreational Artifacts - Toy - Doll
People - African Americans
People - African Americans - Exodusters
People - Children
Places - Cities and towns - Nicodemus
Places - Counties - Graham
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
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