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This bracelet was fashioned out of a brass wire. The bracelet was recovered from the Village on the Pawnee Fork in Ness County during excavations in 1977. The site was home to several hundred Southern Cheyenne and Southern Teton Oglala. It was destroyed by order of Major General Winifred S. Hancock in 1867. The Village on Pawnee Fork is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 1867
Item Number: 457893
Call Number: 14NS403-143
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 457893
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Military - Service - Army
Military - Wars - Indian Wars
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Bracelet
People - American Indians - Indian removal
People - American Indians - Tribes - Cheyenne - Northern Cheyenne
People - American Indians - Tribes - Sioux - Ogalla Sioux
Places - Counties - Ness
Thematic Time Period - Trails, 1821 - 1880
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