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These dish fragments were recovered from the Jotham Meeker farmstead site in Franklin County. Shown are dish sherds made of a variety of materials including whiteware, yellowware, and redware. Decorative techniques include transferware, spongeware, banded ware, and hand painted patterns. The site was excavated in 1985 at a Kansas Archeology Training Program field school. Jotham Meeker served as a Baptist missionary among the Ottawa on their reservation.
Date: 1845-1865
Item Number: 508778
Call Number: 14FR308
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 508778
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - American Indians - Tribes - Osage
People - Notable Kansans - Meeker, Jotham, 1804-1855
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
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