The Palisade e-Post
Museum of Ontario Archaeology
August 2010
www.uwo.ca/museum
Main Gallery:
Clayton Samuel King
This work of
Clayton’s reflects
the close relationship between the
people and the
land, and honours
the wolf and the
legendary
Nanaboozho as
guides to recreate
and keep the harmony and respect between man and the
earth. Please visit the Museum to view
this thought-provoking work before the
exhibit closes at the end of August.
1600 Attawandaron Road London, ON
519-473-1360
Volume 3 # 8
Wilfrid Jury Archaeology Day 2010 ~ August 7th
Be an archaeologist for a day! Come out and dig on the site with our archaeologists,
discover traces of the villagers from 500 years ago, wash and study your findings.
$50.00 for the day. Call to reserve your spot on the grid!
519-473-1360
With Regular Admission enjoy these activities!
photos from
Wilfrid Jury Day
2009
Visit with Rudy Fecteau, archaeo-botanist
Bring artifacts for identification
Tour the Museum gallery
Children-make a clay fossil
Taste the bannock cooking in the longhouse
Dig in the children’s site
Adults– talk with the archaeologists at work
on the Lawson site
Sweat Lodge
Ken Oliver, a Native Counsellor with the Southwest Healing
Lodge, has built a sweat lodge in our village and is holding a
monthly sweat ceremony. At left is a photo of Ken (centre)
and friends building the lodge and on the right is the finished area in the village. Before the ceremony begins the
lodge is covered. We are honoured that Ken has chosen the
museum to build the lodge and that the village site has this
monthly ceremony taking place.
Selections from our Collection by
Dr. Robert Pearce
Harvest Festival & Pow Wow September 17-18-19 Check out the poster on the website. Friday Night Opening Concert and the Pow Wow on Saturday and Sunday!
Plummets
Plummets are stone objects shaped like modern-day plumb bobs. It is
believed they were used
in fishing activities as a
net weight or line sinker.
A hard to semi-hard stone
was first pecked into the
rough shape, and then it
was ground smooth. Often, a knob was fashioned
on the top to facilitate attaching it to a net or fishing line. Archaeologically, plummets first appeared during the lengthy Archaic period,
between 8000 – 1000 B.C. They are quite
rare, and the two specimens illustrated here
are ones found in southwestern Ontario by
Wilfrid Jury in the 1920s. The largest of the
two is 93.6 mm long, 32.4 mm wide and
weighs 91 grams, while the smaller one is 70.6
mm long, 32.5 mm wide and weighs 50 grams.
Sometimes I go about
pitying myself, and all the
while I am being carried
across the sky
by beautiful clouds
Ojibway Indian Poem
Birthday Parties at the
Museum!
CSI ~ Dinosaur
Native Legends ~ Dig-it
Ages 5-13
Let us host the party and
entertain your child and
their friends.
2 1/2 hours
$125.00
Camp is up and running & there are a few
spots left! Call us to register
519-473-1360 For ages 6 through 10
Native Legends....... August 9-13
Ancient Rome.........August 16-20
Discover the Vikings.....August 23-27
Around the World in a Week..Aug 30-Sept 3
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
$135.00 per week
Archaeology Camp 11-15 yrs
August 11-12-13 $100.00
This is a bloom from our
Three-Sisters garden. Thanks to
Tyler, our work-study student
who planted and has been tending it all summer! Let’s hope that
the fat and happy raccoons in the
village will leave some harvest
vegetables for the festival!
http://diggingontario.uwo.ca
Check out our new history website!