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Museum Seek and Find


  1. Find the tomahawk displayed with the Indian photographs and arrowheads.

    What else, besides chopping or cutting could this have been used for? Look closely.____________________________


  2. Do you see the parfleche? What colors are used to decorate it? ______________________________________. Draw a small picture of it.





  3. Describe the dishes in the cupboard.



  4. Name three items, in addition to the dishes, that are located in the homemaking display. ___________________,

    _______________________, and ____________________


  5. There are two toys displayed in the museum. What are they?____________________ and

    ____________________________.

  6. There is a blue dress in a display. Name 3 items used to decorate it _____________________, ___________________, and _______________________.

  7. Find the Circle of Life. What are some of the activities pictured in the sections for:
    SPRING ___________________________________.

    SUMMER __________________________________.

    FALL ______________________________________.

    WINTER ___________________________________.

  8. How many figures are there in the center section of the museum?_______________.
    Describe whom two of these figures represent._____________________________________

    _____________________________________________.

  9. What is the figure of the Indian girl holding in her hand?_______________.

  10. Find the Indian woman who is digging roots. What is her digging tool made out of?____________________________________.

  11. Find the figures of the hunter and medicine man. What are their moccasins made from?____________________________________________.

  12. Look at the Whitman-Spalding 1836 Route map. What city did they start in?_________________

  13. Name the four Sager girls whose pictures hang in the museum. ___________________, _________________,

    ______________________, and ______________________

  14. Name two items that are on display that belonged to Marcus Whitman._________________, _____________________

  15. Look at the wagon wheel. What is the tire made of?_______________________


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