1. People who give objects and/or images to a museum or historical society are called:

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2. A person who fixes damaged artifacts and preserves them for the future is called:

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To find out what materials an object is made from, you can:

A. try to match it to a similar object made from known material

B. look at a sample under a microscope

C. ask the person who made it or used it

D. all of the above

3. Clues about the subject of a photograph sometimes appear

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4. Neah Bay, Willapa Bay, and Porcupine Bay are all in what state and country?

5. The name "Makah" means:

A. canoe people
B. cape people
C. rocky shore

6. What is this object's purpose, what does it do?:

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7. Where in Washington state could you go to see similar objects?

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8. Circle the tools of the historian's trade you used during this challenge:

Find an object special to your family's history and apply your tools of the trade to it.

• Ask someone about it
• Find information about it in a book
• Find the place where it was made or used on a map
• Look for a piece of ephemera that relates to it
• Try to find a movie, Internet information, audio recording that relates to it
• Find an article or advertisement about it in a magazine, catalog, or newspaper
• See if you can find a law that influenced the use or production of the object

Good luck and have fun!

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