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These eleven dish sherds were collected from the Plowboy site in Shawnee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. All of the dish fragments are decorated in different floral patterns. Shown are molded and painted patterns, both with and without embellished gold paint, hand painted motifs, and transferware designs. The Plowboy site was home to the Kansa, the Potawatomi, and Euro-Americans. At various times, the site contained a farm, a trading post, and a post office with nearby military trails, Mormon routes, a railroad and the California-Oregon trail.
Date: 1840-1900
Item Number: 447137
Call Number: 14SH372 2017.C Fitzgerald donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447137
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Home and Family - Daily life - Housework - Dishwashing
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - American Indians - Tribes - Kanza (Kaw)
People - American Indians - Tribes - Potawatomi
People - European Americans
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
Thematic Time Period - Trails, 1821 - 1880
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