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These nine scrapers were recovered from excavations during the 1977 and 1978 Kansas Archeology Training Program field schools at the Tobias site in Rice County. Scrapers, such as these, would have been hafted on a handle and used to scrape hides. The scrapers on the top row are all made of Smoky Hill silicified chalk, a chert type that outcrops in western Kansas. The two scrapers on the left of the middle row are also Smoky Hill silicified chalk, but the one on the right was made of Permian chert from the Flint Hills of Kansas or Oklahoma. The scrapers on the bottom row were made of Alibates Agatized Dolomite, a silicified or agatized dolomite from the Canadian River valley in the Texas panhandle. The Tobias site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village that had dense artifact deposits, house remains, and numerous deep trash-filled storage pits. The site is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 1400-1700 CE
Item Number: 447243
Call Number: 14RC8
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447243
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Clothing
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Scraper
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Alibates
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Permian Chert
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Smoky Hill Jasper
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Tobias
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Other States - Texas
Places - Regions - Flint Hills
Places - Regions - Western Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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