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This rasp was excavated from the Crandall site in Rice County during the 1983 Kansas Archeology Training Program. The Crandall site is a Little River focus Great Bend aspect (protohistoric Wichita) habitation site. The rasp was made by cutting grooves into a bison rib. At some point, the rasp was broken into two pieces. Archeologists believe that artifacts like these could have been used as musical instruments by drawing a stick across the grooves.
Date: 1500 CE-1800
Item Number: 442832
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 442832
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Rasp
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
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)
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