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These scrapers were collected from an archeological site near the Smoky Hill River in Wallace County and donated in 2018 to the Kansas Historical Society. Scrapers such as these would have been hafted on a handle and used to scrape hides. They would have required periodic resharpening. All five scrapers were made of Alibates flint, a silicified or agatized dolomite from the Canadian River valley in the Texas panhandle.
Date: 1000-1500 CE
Item Number: 456809
Call Number: 14WC408 2018.I
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 456809
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Scraper
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Alibates
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Wallace
Places - Other States - Texas
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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