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This awl was recovered from a rodent hole near the surface at the Tobias site, a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village in Rice County. This awl was made of a deer cannon or metacarpal bone. Awls were usually made from deer bone and used as a perforating tool in soft material, like hides, and possibly in basket and pottery manufacturing.
Date: 1400-1700 CE
Item Number: 442510
Call Number: 14RC8-270-14
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 442510
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Clothing
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Awl
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Tobias
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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