Join Mrs. Wilensky and Mrs. Roberts as they travel to the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center at Fort Mandan and Knife River Indian Villages in North Dakota.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Mystery Object #6
Can you identify this item? Soldiers at the time of Lewis
and Clark were expected to use one of these at least every three days.
Answer: This is a straight razor. It is used for shaving. It’s not known if the men of the Expedition shaved every three days, but they might have. However often these were used, they could be dangerous…especially if they got dull!
I think it is a turkey catcher where you rub the two parts togther and it makes a turkey sound.
ReplyDelete-Victoria N.
It looks like a pocketknife or something you might use for taking the fur off animals they killed.Hannah:D
ReplyDeleteYou're close, Hannah...it is for taking the "fur" off something, but that something isn't an animal!
DeleteMaybe there is a special sound that everybody on the expedition knew that meant "gather round, we need to plan"?
ReplyDeleteI think maybe it's a pocket knife to cut food-Emily
ReplyDeleteI TOTALLY agree.
DeleteJuliana :)
I think it is a sort of an old-timey pocket knife.
ReplyDeleteMadeline:)
maybe it is a knife and something to cut on-Electra
ReplyDeleteI think it is a pocket nife
ReplyDelete-Campbell:)
i think it is a knife or it helps them make fire or to carve on wood or smooth it out. Lindsay
ReplyDeleteI think it is a knife anne
ReplyDeleteI think it is a turkey call or a knife.
ReplyDeleteLea
Pocket Knife or Pistol.
ReplyDeleteHayden.
Pistol, Hayden??!
DeletePocket Knife
ReplyDelete-Sophie
Maybe a its a pocket knife-grace
ReplyDeleteA hairbrush and scissors mixed together
ReplyDeleteAnswer: This is a straight razor. It is used for shaving. It’s not known if the men of the Expedition shaved every three days, but they might have. However often these were used, they could be dangerous…especially if they got dull!
ReplyDeleteMaybe it took the feathers off wild turkeys and other birds.
ReplyDeleteLucy;)
I think it's a pocket knife.
ReplyDeleteI think it is a pocket knife.
ReplyDelete-Payton