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These four knives were collected from Anderson County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society. From left to right are shown a knife made of Alibates chert, an agatized dolomite from the Canadian River Valley in Texas, a knife made of heat treated Permian chert, a knife that may have once been hafted, and a knife in the style archeologists call Harahey.
Date: Unknown
Item Number: 456359
Call Number: 14AD Fay donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 456359
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Knife - Beveled
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Knife - Harahey
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Alibates
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Permian Chert
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Anderson
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
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