Little River Focus Great Bend Aspect vessel

This pottery vessel was found at the Paint Creek Archeological site, a village site in McPherson County, Kansas and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1971. The pot, which is shell tempered, was reconstructed from many individual sherds, with the spaces filled in with plaster. The Paint Creek site is what archeologists call part of the Little River Focus of the Great Bend Aspect, whose people practiced fishing, hunting, gathering, and agriculture.