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This unusual hematite artifact could have been used as a source of pigment. Hematite is a relatively soft and fine-grained mineral form of iron oxide. It was recovered during the 1994 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Killdeer site, since destroyed by construction. The Killdeer site was a Lower Walnut focus Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) site in Cowley County with numerous pits, basins and post molds.
Date: 1500-1750 CE
Item Number: 447446
Call Number: 14CO501-786-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447446
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Pigment Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Hematite
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Cowley
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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