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This ceramic pipe fragment was excavated at the Radio Lane site in Cowley County. Incised lines and triangles surround the bowl fragment. Traces of dottle (tobacco residue) remains in the pipe bowl's interior. The site was a large Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village. Kansas Historical Society archeologists and crew excavated there during a Phase IV archeological investigation in 1995.
Date: 1400-1725 CE
Item Number: 449016
Call Number: 14CO385-253-2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 449016
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Smoking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ceramic
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Pipe
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - Cowley
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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