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This mano was recovered from the Blue Earth village site and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1880. Manos were used as the upper, hand-held millstone for grinding foods and pigments. This one was made of Sioux City quartzite. Blue Earth village was a Kansa Indian village in Pottawatomie County. Many lodge depressions were still visible on the surface in the 1880s.
Date: 1795-1830
Item Number: 446205
Call Number: 14PO24 80.14.2 Wells donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446205
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Mano
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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