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This modified bone was recovered from excavations during the 1977 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Tobias site in Rice County. The rasp was made by cutting grooves into animal bone. Archeologists believe that artifacts like these could have been used as musical instruments by drawing a stick across the grooves or as tally sticks. The Tobias site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village that had dense artifact deposits, house remains, and numerous deep trash-filled storage pits. The site is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 1400-1700 CE
Item Number: 508527
Call Number: 14RC8-2243 Feature 495
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 508527
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Rasp
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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