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Shown are five gunflints of the many that were found at the Canville Trading Post in Neosho County near the Osage Reservation. They were donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1994. Gunflints were used to generate a spark in a flintlock musket or pistol to ignite the gunpowder and as strike-a-lights for lighting a fire. These five gunflints were all quarried and manufactured in southern England. Left to right they show a square gunflint with two dorsal arrises and cortex; a square gunflint with two dorsal arrises; a square gunflint with one dorsal arris; and two small square gunflints both with two dorsal arrises, possibly used with a pistol or as strike-a-lights. The Canville Trading Post was established in 1847 by A. B. Canville. When the Osage reservation land was ceded to the United States in 1870, the Osage left for Oklahoma and Canville followed in 1872.
Date: 1847-1852
Item Number: 440176
Call Number: 14NO396 1994.B.5011; -5032; -5014; 5013; -5026
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 440176
Collections - Archeology
Date - 1840s
Date - 1850s
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Places - Counties - Neosho
Places - Indian reservations - Osage
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
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