Blackfoot Artifacts

Today our students had the opportunity to explore Blackfoot artifacts from Glenbow museum. Ask your child about:

• Bison Gauntlet
• Pemmican
• Horse Tooth Rawhide Necklace
• Trade Beads
• Porcupine Quills
• Moccasins
• Travois
• Parfleche Bag
• Pipe Bag
• Bone Flesher
• Arrow
• Horn Spoon

Questions students were wondering:

• I wonder if beads were money?
• Does the pemmican last many years?
• I wonder what the spoon was used for?
• How might the stone have been used?
• I wonder why they had wars?
• How did the Blackfoot people live? Was it hard? How did they get all the materials?
• What would they use buffalo eyes for?
• I wonder how they sharpened the rocks?
• How did they get hot water?
• I wonder if the Blackfoot people used the beads for jewlery?