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Who Wants to Be a…

Who Wants to Be a…. Historian Extraordinaire?. The Rules. 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!

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Who Wants to Be a…

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  1. Who Wants to Be a… Historian Extraordinaire?

  2. The Rules • 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.

  3. “I’LL TAKE A PERFECT PAIR”

  4. “I’ll CONSULT A CURATOR”

  5. “MAY I PHONE A FRIEND?”

  6. Audiences’ cue to make a dramatic noise before the answer is revealed. Let’s Play!

  7. And the Object is…

  8. Object: Question 1: From what is this object made? Wood Plastic Steel Silver Clue not available

  9. Object: Question 1: From what is this object made? Wood Plastic Steel Silver

  10. Object: Question 2: When might this object have been used? 1690s 1750s 1890s 1950s Consult a Curator

  11. Object: Question 2: Consult A Curator Clue: “Women had little use for fancy shoes during their early years on the prairie. Shoes were expensive and were saved for special occasions.”

  12. 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: When might this object have been used? 1690s 1750s 1890s 1950s

  13. 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: When might this object have been used? 1690s 1750s 1890s 1950s

  14. Object: Question 3: When was a person most likely to use this object? While dressing While eating While cooking While cleaning Phone a Friend

  15. 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

  16. 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.” Question 3: Where was a person most likely to use this object? While dressing While eating While cooking While cleaning

  17. 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.” Question 3: Where was a person most likely to use this object? While dressing While eating While cooking While cleaning

  18. Object: Question 4: What is the purpose of this object? Cleaning shoes Buttoning shoes Fixing dresses Working leather Perfect Pair

  19. Object: Question 4: Perfect Pair Source: Montgomery Ward catalog reprint, 1895

  20. Object: Clue: Question 4: What is the purpose of this object? Cleaning Shoes Buttoning Shoes Fixing Dresses Working Leather

  21. Object: Clue: Question 4: What is the purpose of this object? Cleaning Shoes Buttoning Shoes Fixing Dresses Working Leather

  22. And the Object is…

  23. Object: Question 1: From what is this object made? Petrified Wood Stone Steel Silver

  24. Object: Question 1: From what is this object made? Petrified Wood Stone Steel Silver

  25. Object: Question 2: What value would this object have likely had to its owner? Entertainment Ornamental Practical All of the Above

  26. 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.

  27. Object: 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? Entertainment Ornamental Practical All of the Above

  28. Object: 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? Entertainment Ornamental Practical All of the Above

  29. Object: Question 3: What was the specific purpose of this object? Clean Animals for Cooking Transporting Fire From an Existing One Creating Sparks to Start a Fire Wear as a Bracelet

  30. Object: Question 3: Perfect Pair

  31. Object: Clue: Question 3: What was the specific purpose of this object? Clean Animals for Cooking Transporting Fire From an Existing One Creating Sparks to Start a Fire Wear as a Bracelet

  32. Object: Clue: Question 3: What was the specific purpose of this object? Clean Animals for Cooking Transporting Fire From an Existing One Creating Sparks to Start a Fire Wear as a Bracelet

  33. Object: Question 4: What type of person might have used this object? Traveler Soldier Family All of the Above

  34. Object: Question 4 Phone A Friend Alice Morse Earle 1899 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)

  35. 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…” Question 4: What type of person might have used this object? Traveler Soldier Family All of the Above

  36. 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…” Question 4: What type of person might have used this object? Traveler Soldier Family All of the Above

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