Who Wants to Be a…

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