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This shell ornament fragment was collected from the Wullschleger site in Marshall County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1961. The now broken ornament was made of local mussel shell. The site was occupied periodically from the Early Ceramic to the Late Ceramic periods.
Date: 1-1800 CE
Item Number: 456774
Call Number: 14MP301 61.12.246 Wullschleger donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 456774
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Shell
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Pendant
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Adornment
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Marshall
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Early Ceramic, 1 - 1000 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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