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Hudson Museum Wabanaki Gallery Scavenger Hunt
An online version of the Hudson Museum scavenger hunt that can be completed with a cell phone!
Take a look around the gallery and find the names of four Wabanaki communities represented in the exhibits.
Community 1
Community 2
Community 3
Community 4
Many of the baskets exhibited were made for sale and feature forms that had little utility in Wabanaki communities.
Which traditional basket form do you think dates prior to contact?
Why?
Besides decorative baskets for use in the home, Wabanaki familes also produced baskets for local industries such as agriculture and fishing.
Which basket form do you think was made specifically for use in Aroostook County?
Which basket form was made for use at the coast in Washington county?
What is the only type of knife needed to make a birchbark canoe?
Name two distinctive design styles used in Maine to decorate clothing and regalia.
Design element 1
Design element 2
What are two traditional games played in the Northeast?
Game 1
Game 2
Whose 1835 portrait is featured in the gallery?
Explore the videos on the computers around the gallery. Watch one video and write the artist and art form below.
Artist
Artform
According to UMaine researchers, 15,000 years ago Maine was covered with a sheet of ice over a mile thick! When the ice receded, land emerged, eventually providing habitat for people. What ice age remnant, still found on Katahdin, is on exhibit?
Archaeologists have identified distinct assemblages of artifacts dating from 10,000 years ago to European Contact. When did ceramics appear in the archaeological record?
Optional Bonus Question!
What was your favorite object you saw in the Gallery today?
Why?
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