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These arrow points were recovered from an archeological site in Cowley County during survey in 1990 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. The triangular points are made of local Flint Hills region chert and gets their pinkish color as a result of the material being carefully heated before manufacturing to improve the chert's knapping qualities. The site is a Lower Walnut focus Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita and Affiliated Tribes) site occupied during the Late Ceramic period.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 520523
Call Number: 14CO333-43 & 14CO333-125
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 520523
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point - Triangular
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Florence
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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