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This modified bone artifact, possibly a pendant, was recovered at the 1977 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Tobias site in Rice County. The artifact has a drilled hole on one end with incised diagonal lines below. 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. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 1400-1700 CE
Item Number: 511894
Call Number: 14RC8-211-58
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 511894
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Pendant
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Tobias
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Adornment
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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