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This hair pipe was recovered from the Fanning site, an Early Contact period Kansa village in Doniphan County. Hair pipes were used to decorate hair, or as necklaces, earrings, and in breast plates. It was collected in the 1930s by the University of Nebraska and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1987.
Date: 1500-1700 CE
Item Number: 446784
Call Number: 14DP1 1987.E.175
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446784
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Shell
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Bead
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Adornment
People - American Indians - Tribes - Kanza (Kaw)
Places - Counties - Doniphan
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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