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These beads were excavated in 1986 during a highway salvage project undertaken by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and Kansas Anthropological Association volunteers at the Mem site. The Mem site, in Marion County, is a Great Bend aspect, protohistoric Wichita village site. The black glass ovoid bead, of European manufacture, was recovered from the upper fill of a cache pit. The disc-shaped turquoise bead and the two ceramic beads were recovered from the same cache pit.
Date: 1500 CE-1800
Item Number: 447537
Call Number: 14MN328
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447537
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ceramic
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Bead
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Turquoise
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Mem
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Adornment
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Marion
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10,000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic/Protohistoric (1500 - 1820 CE)
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