Puzzles From the Past Traveling Trunk
This trunk contains:
Objects and Reproductions:
- Grassing needle (bone tool)
- Stone arrow point
- Metal arrow point
- Hide Scraper (stone tool)
- Bison milk tooth
- Pottery sherds
- Horn button
- Stone dart point
- Glass beads
- Toy car
- Pull tab from beverage can
- Plastic jewelry
- Penny
- Digging stick tip (bone tool)
- Charred wood
- Bone fragments
- Bison scapula hoe blade
- Chopsticks
- Knife & fork
Object Cards
- Bison scapula hoe blade
- Bone fragments
- Charred wood
- Digging stick tip
- Grassing needle
- Pot section
- Pottery sherd
- Scraper
- Stone arrow point
- Tooth pendent
Worksheets
- Myths & Misconceptions
- New Baby in the Grass House
- Cultural Comparisons
- Observing an Image
- Observation and Inference
- Pottery Classification
- Instructions for the Stratigraphy Model
- Stratigraphy Research
- Stratigraphy Timeline
- Site Analysis
- Ethnography excerpt
- Exploring with Ethnography
- Muriel Farmer, Landowner
- Archie Howlogee, Archeologist
- Fred Big Bear, Native American
- Position Analysis
- Judge's Worksheet
Graphic Images
- Native American Woman Using Bison Scapula Hoe
- Wichita Grass House Posthole Pattern
- Wichita Grass Houses
- Wichita Grass Homestead
- Pottery Sherd Analysis
- Gridding an Archeological Site
- Excavating Units of a Gridded Site
- Excavation Unit Cross Section
- Wall Profile of an Excavated Unit
- Bison Scapula Hoe
- Map of Pawnee Territories in Kansas and Nebraska
- Pawnee Village
Ft. Larned Medicine Artifact Research
Stratigraphy activity (4 plexiglass dividers, 4 sets of stratigraphy cards, and assembly directions)
- Directions for Assembling the Stratigraphy Model
- Layer 1 cards - digging stick tip, dart point, scraper, bone fragments, feature card
- Layer 3 cards - stone arrow point, grassing needle, bison scapula hoe blade, sherd, feature card
- Layer 4 cards - metal arrow point, horn button, glass beads, pottery rim fragment, feature card
- Layer 5 cards - toy car, beverage container pull tab, penny, plastic jewelry, feature card
Wichita grass lodge site features floor cloth
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