CULTURAL SOUNDS OF THE PAST, Make a Decorated Cane Double Whistle: Ages 8+

CULTURAL SOUNDS OF THE PAST, Make a Decorated Cane Double Whistle: Ages 8+

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Whistles have been made and used for keeping rhythm, signaling and for imitating the calls of animals for millennia. In this class, participants, using only stone and bone tools, will learn to make a cane double whistle using a local reed and gray pine pitch.

You will then twist up simple string to tie your whistles together and to make a neck cord. To add your own personal aesthetic to your new cultural artifact, participants will hand make beads from 3 different plant and animal materials. Depending on weather, participants will also have the opportunity to help create a friction fire that our group will use to make our pine pitch.

Cost: $30/person or $100/family (4 max).

  Overall class goals and objectives for ALL classes, camps and workshops:

1. Learn how prehistoric peoples created a multitude of art and culture items from the natural materials around them.
2. Learn how ancestral peoples made the tools and acquired the plant, animal and mineral resources to create art and culture items.
3. Learn to appreciate the relationships these ancient peoples had with the natural world around them and how they lived in balance with it.
4. Learn the STEM lessons presented from working with the tools and materials.