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These three fragmented dart points were collected from an archeological site near the Smoky Hill River in Wallace County and donated in 2018 to the Kansas Historical Society. Two of the darts have expanding stems, the third has a parallel stem. Dart points would be mounted to the dart foreshaft, which would in turn be connected to the dart shaft. The assembled dart would then be thrown with an atlatl (spear thrower).
Date: 1000-1500 CE
Item Number: 456896
Call Number: 14WC408 2018.I donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 456896
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point - Stemmed - Expanding
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point - Stemmed - Straight
Places - Counties - Wallace
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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