An interior view of Whiteford's Indian Burial Pit also known as Salina's Indian Burial Pit, Saline County, Kansas. The gentleman in the photograph might be Waldo Wedel of the Smithsonian Institution, who created an inventory of the skeletons and funerary materials within the cemetery. Guy and Mabel Whiteford excavated the site, and it was one of the premier tourist attractions in central Kansas from 1936 to 1989. The Indian Burial Pit was reburied by the State of Kansas under a negotiated agreement with the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. In 1990, as the state prepared to rebury the remains, archeologists from the Kansas State Historical Society conducted a final inventory of the skeletons and funerary objects.
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