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These pottery sherds were collected from an archeological site in Cowley County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1991. The rim sherd and body sherds are shell tempered and are a type called Cowley Plain. The body sherds retain traces of handles. The site is multicomponent with an occupation in the Archaic period and a Lower Walnut focus Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita and Affiliated Tribes) occupation during the Late Ceramic period.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 519099
Call Number: 14CO335 1991.F.1; .3; .4 Weston donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 519099
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 - Cowley
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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