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These three bone artifacts were recovered during excavations by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at the Nulik site in Sumner County. It is unknown if these decorated bones had a functional or decorative use. The bones are incised with a series of diagonal and horizontal lines, zig-zags, and Xs. Remnants of drilled and polished holes on two of the bones may indicate their use an arrow shaft wrench, used to straighten a warped arrow shaft. The excavations in 1969 revealed a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) house and associated midden (refuse heap or mound).
Date: 1000-1500 CE
Item Number: 449128
Call Number: 14SR305
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 449128
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Shaft Wrench
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - Sumner
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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