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This broken hoe blade was recovered from the Blue Earth village site and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1880. Blue Earth village was a Kansa Indian village in Pottawatomie County. Iron hoes were used for heavy duty garden and field work. Many lodge depressions were still visible on the surface of the village in the 1880s.
Date: 1795-1830
Item Number: 446201
Call Number: 14PO24 80.18 Wells donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446201
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Hoe
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Materials - Agricultural - Hoe
People - American Indians - Tribes - Kanza (Kaw)
Places - Counties - Pottawatomie
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
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