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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

 
Fire Point Mound Group  

Did You Know?
Stephen H. Long, of the U.S. Army's Topographical Engineers, explored and described the Effigy Mounds National Monument region in expeditions undertaken in 1817 and 1823. Long was one of the first to document the presence of mounds in the Upper Mississippi River Valley.

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