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Bag of Artifacts

 

Bag O' Artifacts

Artifacts represent individuals as well as cultures. Groups of artifacts found together can change the meaning of single artifacts. Through examining personalized artifact collections, members of a group will try to guess who of the group they represent.

  1. Have each participant fill a small paper bag with objects that represent themselves.

  2. Give everyone an individual number to put on his or her bag and keep a hidden list of the names and numbers.

  3. Mix the bags up so that everyone gets someone else's artifacts.

  4. Have each person try to guess to whom the bag belongs. How could they tell?

  5. Discuss your answers.

 






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Effigy Mounds National Monument

 

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2000 Year Old Burial Mounds at Fire Point

Did You Know?
Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves 31 early American Indian earthen mounds in the shape of animals. The monument preserves over 200 mounds representing almost 2000 years of mound building along the Upper Mississippi River.
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