File:Bone Needle (FOUS 32480) (7c8a443d-1dd8-b71b-0b09-581c28be2a98).jpg

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English: Bone Needle (FOUS 32480)
Photographer
English: NPS photo
Title
English: Bone Needle (FOUS 32480)
Publisher
English: U.S. National Park Service
Description
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Bone needle.

Before Europeans provided access to metal needles as trade items, American Indians made their own needles out of splinters of sharpened bone. This is one that archeologists discovered during their 1986 Fort Union excavations.

  • Keywords: fort; union; trading; post; national; historic; site; artifacts; trade; plains; indians; american; artifact
Depicted place
English: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Date Taken on 13 January 2017
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English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
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InfoField
FOUS
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English: Artifacts of Fort Union

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