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These three mano fragments were collected from the Malone village site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2001 and 2005. Manos are the upper, hand-held millstone used for grinding foods and pigments. The Malone site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village that had dense artifact deposits and numerous deep trash-filled storage pits.
Date: 1432-1657 CE
Item Number: 474532
Call Number: 14RC5 2001.G, 2005.E Polson donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 474532
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Mano
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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