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These pipe fragments were recovered from the Jotham Meeker farmstead site in Franklin County. The pipe fragments are made of white clay, sometimes called pipe clay. They are decorated with horizontal and vertical molded lines. 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: 508779
Call Number: 14FR308-381 & 14FR308-388
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 508779
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Smoking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Personal Gear - Pipe
People - American Indians - Missions
People - American Indians - Tribes - Osage
Places - Counties - Franklin
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
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