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These pieces of silica, or remnants of burned grasses, were recovered from the Tobias site in Rice County during excavations as part of the 1977, 1978, and 2019 Kansas Archeology Training Program field schools. Silica like this is likely evidence of the grass lodges used by the people living at the Tobias site, who are ancestral to the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.
Date: 1400-1700 CE
Item Number: 509288
Call Number: 14RC8-148; -349-21681; -430-9285; -9031-1; -430-14444
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 509288
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
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
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