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Who Wants to Be a…
Historian Extraordinaire?
•Teams will be presented with a mystery object.
•The purpose is to answer questions about this object.
•There are often clues to help you.
•Clues are hints in the form of sources.
•Please explain your reasoning and work together!
•Captains will write your team’s answer and reasoning
•Audience: no calling out the answer please, but we do need your help with sound effects.
The Rules
“I’LL TAKE A PERFECT PAIR”
“I’ll CONSULT A CURATOR”
“MAY I PHONE A FRIEND?”
Let’s Play!
Audiences’ cue to make a dramatic noise before the
answer is revealed.
And the Object is…
Wood
Steel
Plastic
Silver
Question 1: From what is this object made?
Object:
Clue not available
Wood
Steel
Plastic
Silver
Question 1: From what is this object made?
Object:
1690s
1890s
1750s
1950s
Question 2: When might this object have been used?
Object:
Consult a Curator
Object:
Clue: “Women had little use for fancy shoes during their early years on the prairie. Shoes were expensive and were saved for special occasions.”
Question 2:Consult A Curator
Question 2: When might this object have been used?
Object:
Clue: Women had little use for fancy shoes during their early years on the prairie. Shoes were expensive and were saved for special occasions.
1690s
1890s
1750s
1950s
Object:
Clue: Women had little use for fancy shoes during their early years on the prairie. Shoes were expensive and were saved for special occasions.
1690s 1750s
1950s
Question 2: When might this object have been used?
1890s
While dressing
While cooking
While eating
While cleaning
Question 3: When was a person most likely to use this object?
Object:
Phone aFriend
Object:
Question 3
Phone A Friend
Mrs. Erret Hicks Canyon City, Oregon (born May 9, 1873)
Written on March 29, 1939
“Clothes were not such a problem. About all we needed was something to keep us warm. I wore cotton stockings or wool ones, high, buttoned shoes, calico dresses, and long, heavy, woolen underwear, topped by several petticoats. I don't see how these young girls get by today with -- Te-he, -- a dress and a slip.”
Source: American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project Library of Congress American Memory Project
Question 3: Where was a person most likely to use this object?
Object:
Clue: “Clothes were not such a problem. About all we needed was something to keep us warm. I wore cotton stockings or wool ones, high, buttoned shoes, calico dresses, and long, heavy, woolen underwear, topped by several petticoats. I don't see how these young girls get by today with -- Te-he, -- a dress and a slip.”
While dressing
While cooking
While eating
While cleaning
Question 3: Where was a person most likely to use this object?
Object:
Clue: “Clothes were not such a problem. About all we needed was something to keep us warm. I wore cotton stockings or wool ones, high, buttoned shoes, calico dresses, and long, heavy, woolen underwear, topped by several petticoats. I don't see how these young girls get by today with -- Te-he, -- a dress and a slip.”
While cooking
While eating
While cleaning
While dressing
Cleaning shoes
Fixing dresses
Buttoning shoes
Working leather
Question 4: What is the purpose of this object?
Object:
Perfect Pair
Object:
Source: Montgomery Ward catalog reprint, 1895
Question 4:
Perfect Pair
Clue:
Fixing Dresses
Cleaning Shoes
Working Leather
Buttoning Shoes
Object:
Question 4: What is the purpose of this object?
Clue:
Fixing Dresses
Cleaning Shoes
Working Leather
Buttoning Shoes
Object:
Question 4: What is the purpose of this object?
And the Object is…
Petrified Wood
Steel
Stone
Silver
Question 1: From what is this object made?
Object:
Petrified Wood
Steel
Stone
Silver
Question 1: From what is this object made?
Object:
Entertainment
Practical
Ornamental
All of the Above
Question 2: What value would this object have likely had to its owner?
Object:
Object:
Question 2:Consult A Curator Clue: Damage to an object is
not always a result of age. It can also point to an object’s use.
Question 2: What value would this object have likely had to its owner?
Object:
Entertainment
Practical
Ornamental
All of the Above
Clue: Damage to an object is not always a result of age. It can also point to an object’s use.
Question 2: What value would this object have likely had to its owner?
Object:
Entertainment
Practical
Ornamental
All of the Above
Clue: Damage to an object is not always a result of age. It can also point to an object’s use.
Clean Animals for Cooking
Creating Sparks to Start a Fire
Transporting Fire From an Existing One
Wear as a Bracelet
Question 3: What was the specific purpose of this object?
Object:
Object:
Question 3:
Perfect Pair
Clue:
Creating Sparks to Start a Fire
Clean Animals for Cooking
Wear as a Bracelet
Transporting Fire From an Existing One
Object:
Question 3: What was the specific purpose of this object?
Clue:
Creating Sparks to Start a Fire
Clean Animals for Cooking
Wear as a Bracelet
Transporting Fire From an Existing One
Object:
Question 3: What was the specific purpose of this object?
Traveler
Family
Soldier
All of the Above
Question 4: What type of person might have used this object?
Object:
Object:
Question 4
Phone A Friend
Alice Morse Earle1899
For many years the methods of striking a light were very primitive, just as they were in Europe; many families possessed no adequate means, or very imperfect ones. If by ill fortune the fire in the fireplace became wholly extinguished through carelessness at night, someone, usually a small boy, was sent to the house of the nearest neighbor, bearing a shovel or covered pan, or perhaps a broad strip of green bark, on which to bring back coals for relighting the fire. Nearly all families had some form of a flint and steel,—a method of obtaining fire which has been used from time immemorial…
Source:Home Life in Colonial Days: Illustrated by Photographs by the Author of Real Things, Works and Happenings of Olden Times. New York: MacMillan & Company, 1899. 47-48. (Complete text available online via Google Books)
Question 4: What type of person might have used this object?
Object:
Clue: “For many years the methods of striking a light were very primitive, just as they were in Europe; many families possessed no adequate means, or very imperfect ones. If by ill fortune the fire in the fireplace became wholly extinguished through carelessness at night, someone, usually a small boy, was sent to the house of the nearest neighbor, bearing a shovel or covered pan, or perhaps a broad strip of green bark, on which to bring back coals for relighting the fire. Nearly all families had some form of a flint and steel,—a method of obtaining fire which has been used from time immemorial…”
Traveler
Family
Soldier
All of the Above
Question 4: What type of person might have used this object?
Object:
Clue: “For many years the methods of striking a light were very primitive, just as they were in Europe; many families possessed no adequate means, or very imperfect ones. If by ill fortune the fire in the fireplace became wholly extinguished through carelessness at night, someone, usually a small boy, was sent to the house of the nearest neighbor, bearing a shovel or covered pan, or perhaps a broad strip of green bark, on which to bring back coals for relighting the fire. Nearly all families had some form of a flint and steel,—a method of obtaining fire which has been used from time immemorial…”
Traveler
Family
Soldier
All of the Above