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This elk antler scraper handle was recovered from the Thompson site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1963. The elk antler would have been smoothed and shaped and had a hide scraper attached to the base of the tine. A series of incised lines were added to the underside. The site, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village occupied during the Late Ceramic Period.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 443213
Call Number: 14RC9 (14RC302) 63.8.131 Jel;inek donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 443213
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Scraper - Elk Antler Handle
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Thompson
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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