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These pottery fragments were recovered during a survey of the Kermit Hayes No. 2 archeological site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2020. The upper row of pottery is decorated with a white slip on both sides. The bottom left sherd is decorated with a red slip on both sides and the right sherd with a white slip on the exterior only. All of the pottery has sand temper. The Kermit Hayes No. 2 site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral to the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes) village with features labeled as a council circle, four large oblong houses surrounding a central space.
Date: 1450-1700 CE
Item Number: 509410
Call Number: 14RC13 2020.A 60; .348; .411; .414; .495 Hayes donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 509410
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ceramic
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Vessel
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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