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Shown here are two of the many bone rasps excavated at the Tobias site, a Great Bend aspect site in Rice County. The Tobias site was the location of the 1977 and 1978 Kansas Archeology Training Program. The shorter bone rasp was recovered in 1977, while the longer one was recovered in 1978. The rasp was made by cutting grooves into a deer rib. Archeologists believe that artifacts like these could have been used as musical instruments by drawing a stick across the grooves. One rasp does not have as deeply cut grooves as the other, perhaps not being fully finished or perhaps having a different purpose.
Date: 1350 CE-1650
Item Number: 442543
Call Number: 14RC8-1947; 14RC8-11838
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 442543
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Rasp
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Tobias
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10,000 BCE - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10,000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic/Protohistoric (1500 - 1820 CE)
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10,000 BCE - 1820 CE - Protohistoric (1500 CE - 1820 CE)
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