The soft fine grain Kansas pipestone material enabled the carver to shape and smooth this piece and then incise or score lines upon three sides. The function of the artifact is unknown, it may have been a "work in process." It was found during excavations at the 1983 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Crandall site in Rice County. The Crandall site is a Late Ceramic period camp site in Rice County occupied by Little River focus Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) peoples.
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Kansas Pipestone Artifact from the Crandall Site, 14RC420 - 3