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These two pipestone pipe fragments were collected from a cache by avocational archeologists at the Paint Creek site in McPherson County. The soft, fine-grained material of the pipestone enabled the carver to shape and smooth the pipe. Pipes like this one were used during trade negotiations and to mark special occasions. In 1971 the pipes were donated to the Kansas Historical Society. The Paint Creek site is part of the Little River focus of the Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita), whose people practiced fishing, hunting, gathering, and agriculture.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 455209
Call Number: 14MP1 71.138 Whiteford donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 455209
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Smoking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Pipe
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Pipestone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Paint Creek
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - McPherson
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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