These two pipe drills were recovered from excavations at the Sharps Creek site during the 1993 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school. Drills were used to bore holes in softer materials than the drill itself, such as hides, shell, wood, or, as with these examples, the making of pipes out of soft stone. The Sharps Creek site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village in McPherson County.
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Pipe Drills from the Sharps Creek Site, 14MP408 - 1