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Shown are eight of the 83 artifacts stored in a jar that was recovered during the Kansas Archeology Training Program field school excavation in 1996 at Fort Harker in Kanopolis, Kansas. The artifacts were discovered in a broken mustard jar, shown in the two slides, and may well represent a child's treasure, buried and forgotten sometime between the 1930s and the 1950s. Shown here is a brass tie tack, three cuprous decorative attachments with a seashell motif on the front and prongs on the back, a gold colored ring missing its setting, a pink wristwatch band fragment, a screw back earring with a purple glass stone and a heart-shaped filigree necklace pendant.
Date: 1930-1959
Item Number: 442277
Call Number: 14EW310-27 Feature 408
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 442277
Collections - Archeology
Date - 1930s
Date - 1940s
Date - 1950s
Home and Family - Children
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Play
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Recreational Artifacts
Places - Cities and towns - Kanopolis
Places - Counties - Ellsworth
Places - Forts and military installations - Fort Harker
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Slides
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