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A salvage excavation was conducted by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and crew at the Shrope site in Cowley County in 1995. This fragmented pipestone maul was recovered deeply buried in a bell shaped cache pit. The maul was used as a hammer. The soft fine grained pipestone enabled the maul's maker to carve it into its hour glass shape. The groove around the middle of the maul would have been used to haft it onto a handle. The Shrope site, a large Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village, was excavated by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and crew in 1995. Forty-one archeological features, such as storage pits, hearths, and post molds, were uncovered at the site.
Date: 1400-1725 CE
Item Number: 449035
Call Number: 14CO331 Feature 324
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 449035
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Maul
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Pipestone
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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