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Shown is a turquoise colored round glass trade bead found on the former Kaw/Kansa reservation in Morris County in 1989. Beads such as this were widely traded until the 1850s.
Date: 1600-1860
Item Number: 505725
Call Number: 14MO
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 505725
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Bead
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Bead
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Morris
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/505725