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This grinding slab was recovered from Doniphan County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1981. A grinding slab or metate is the lowermost millstone for grinding foods or pigments by hand. Traces of a red pigment remain on one side of this example. The Fanning site was a Late Ceramic to early Contact Period village occupied by the Kansa.
Date: 1500-1700 CE
Item Number: 508593
Call Number: 14DP1 1981.B.309
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 508593
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 - Metate/Grinding Slab
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Oneota
People - American Indians - Tribes - Kanza (Kaw)
Places - Counties - Doniphan
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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