Resorted Material

Object/Artifact

St. Joseph Museums

Additional examples of sherd decoration

Name/Title

Resorted Material

Entry/Object ID

2001.15.3839

Description

23BN1 Materials resorted from a box previously designated for repatriation per NAGPRA guidelines. Box was completely unlabeled. Other associated 01.15 boxes that were previously designated for repatriation and were labeled MNI or AFO were deemed not funerary or human material. Material in this box were labeled 23BN1 with multiple artifact numbers. Material was resorted from the wood chips and dirt into several Ziplock bags. Artifacts were separated from the storage material (dirt and wood chips, there might be a few small artifacts still in the storage material bags). Artifacts include pottery sherds (body and rim) that are decorated and undecorated. Lithics, which include worked fragments. Shell fragments. A few hematite pipe fragments. Artifacts are numerous. Selected pictures are included of particularly noteworthy artifacts to show examples of present artifacts but there are still several unphotographed artifacts. Material is stored in seven boxes. All boxes given the same accession number so all material is identified as coming from the same NAGPRA repatriation box, as there was no way to otherwise guarantee that material was always indicated to have been stored together. Total: 7 boxes (KH Box 27 - KH Box 33) Total: 36 bags

Collection

23BN1

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Kaw Nation

Native American

Notes

See "Weblinks" for more information on Kaw Nation

Lexicon

Search Terms

Archaeological, 23BN1, King Hill, Rock, Chert, Clay, Mollusk

Web Links and URLs

Kaw Nation, STLCC.edu

Provenance

Notes

The King Hill Site (23BN1) is located in a residential area of the city of St. Joseph, Missouri. The archaeological site is situated on top of a high, west facing bluff overlooking the Missouri River Valley. It was excavated by members of the St. Joseph Chapter of the Missouri Archaeological Society and the Summer Field School of the University of Missouri - Columbia over a 10 day period in the summer of 1966 under a cooperative agreement with the St. Joseph Museum. Work was continued in the fall of that year and into the next by the St. Joseph Chapter. Additional work was conducted at the site by the University of Nebraska. Pottery and limited trade goods in the upper levels indicate a late Oneota, early historic occupation, possibly by the Kansa tribe, about AD 1700. The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1968 and a preliminary report was issued that same year. In 1972 further excavations, funded by the National Science Foundation, were undertaken by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Missouri Field School and the University of Nebraska excavations were directed by Dr. Dale R. Henning" (Cutler and Blake 1982). Information gathered from: http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/kinghill.html