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This adze was used for cutting and shaping wood. It was collected from Blue Earth village and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1880. Blue Earth village was a Kansa Indian village in Pottawatomie County. Many lodge depressions were still visible on the surface in the 1880s.
Date: 1795-1830 CE
Item Number: 456935
Call Number: 14PO24 80.22 Wells donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 456935
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Materials - Woodworking
People - American Indians - Tribes - Kanza (Kaw)
Places - Counties - Pottawatomie
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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