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These bone awls were recovered from an archeological site in Rice County during the 1981 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school. Awls were used as a perforating tool in soft materials, like hides, and possibly in basket and pottery manufacture. The site was a small Great Bend aspect, Little River focus grass-covered pit house that included an entryway, storage pits, post molds and a hearth. The people that inhabited Great Bend aspect sites are ancestral to the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.
Date: 1450-1700 CE
Item Number: 507352
Call Number: 14RC306-2138 & 14RC306-2156
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 507352
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Awl
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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