Thursday, May 17, 2012

Utah Archaeology Week - Cedar City Celebration

To close out Utah Archaeology Week, we had a large celebration at the Frontier Homestead State Park Museum on Saturday (May 12). We had a lot of booths and activities and a huge turn out of people from the Iron County area.

[WSA's booth - Coloring page for the kids, artifacts and a slideshow from our most recent excavation, and brochures about our UNEV project]

[Elenor - Cradle board demonstration] 

[BLM - Split twig figures]

[Rug making]

[Rope making]

[Face and body painting]

[Barb Frank from the SUU Repository - Tie painting]


[Artifacts from the SUU Repository]



[Adobe Brick Making]

[WSA's mock excavation]

[Piute structures]

[Atlatl throwing]


[Fry bread]

[Leather working]

Overall the day was a lot of fun and a huge success!

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