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Shown are five pipe drills that were recovered from excavations during the 1977 and 1978 Kansas Archeology Training Program field schools at the Tobias site in Rice County. Pipe drills, like all drills, were used to bore holes in softer materials than the drill material itself, such as soft stone for a pipe. The Tobias site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village that had dense artifact deposits, house remains, and numerous deep trash-filled storage pits. The site is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 1400-1700 CE
Item Number: 457570
Call Number: 14RC8
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 457570
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Drill
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Pipe
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Alibates
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Permian Chert
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Tobias
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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