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These links of chain mail were recovered at the Saxman site in Rice County and donated in 1977 to the Kansas Historical Society. The chain mail consists of several individual rings, series' of several rings linked together, and small masses of rings rusted together. The chain mail was brought to Kansas by sixteenth-century Spanish explorers. The Saxman site was a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village occupied in the Late Ceramic period.
Date: 1541-1720 CE
Item Number: 439656
Call Number: 14RC301 1977.100
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 439656
Collections - Archeology
Military - Equipment
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - European Americans - Spanish
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Exploration, 1541 - 1820
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