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This bone arrow shaft wrench was recovered from the Thompson site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1963. Arrow shaft wrenches were used to straighten a warped arrow shaft. This wrench was made on the left tibia of a deer. The site, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was a Great Bend aspect village occupied by ancestral Wichita people.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 443210
Call Number: 14RC9 (14RC302) 63.8.122 Jelinek donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 443210
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Shaft Wrench
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Thompson
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Materials - Woodworking
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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