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This coffee mill hopper fragment was recovered from the Village on the Pawnee Fork (also called Hancock's Village) in Ness County during excavations in 1977. Coffee mills are used to grind roasted coffee beans prior to brewing. This hopper fragment is made of cast iron and was part of a manual coffee grinder. The hopper fragment was cleaned by electrolysis, which passes an electrical current through a liquid solution to separate the rust from the artifact. The Village on Pawnee Fork, home to several hundred Southern Cheyenne and Southern Teton Oglala was destroyed by order of Major General Winifred S. Hancock in 1867. The site is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 1867
Item Number: 457894
Call Number: 14NS403-244 & 14NS403-552
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 457894
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking - Drinking
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking - Meal preparation
Military - Wars - Indian Wars
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Furnishings - Household Accessory - Coffee Mill
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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