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Pre-Tour Activity: Join our treasure hunt for these artifacts

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You will see these artifacts or similar artifacts when you visit the museum. See how many of the questions you can answer now and find out if they are correct when you visit.

This is a special doll given to children, but they do not play with it. What is the purpose of this doll? What tribes use it? To learn more about these special dolls, and to see some that are now on display, click here.

What is this? What is it made of and how was it used?

Native Americans used these. A form of this is used today. What is it?

What do we call this type of shoe worn by Native Americans? What are they made of? Do they all look the same? Can you tell which tribe might have worn these?

There are some clues on this doll to tell us what culture area it is from. What area is this from and how do we know?