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Traditional Winter House & Remembering Medicine Creek

Harvest Moon
Master Basketmaker and Storyteller

Students visiting the museum Native American exhibit will learn about the Indian culture of the South Sound and life in a traditional Winter House. Included in the exhibits are hands-on activities, artifacts, photographs, tools & equipment.

Mother Earth, Games and Lessons
Harvest Moon explores the natural environment, focusing on how the Coastal Salish benefited from the rich complexity of uses for indigenous plants. Learn about the connection between our natural environment and games that hold a special relationship to the social and spiritual life of the tribe. Listen as she recounts a legend, and brings the program to a close in the traditional Native American Long House.

Coastal Salish Basketweaving: Past, Present and Future
Using natural materials, students will weave and learn about the history of Northwest Native American basketweaving, the rituals of gathering materials, and the place of skilled basketmakers within traditional society.

Legends of the Longhouse and Customs Long Forgotten
The abundance of cedar and salmon made for a rich and rewarding lifestyle for the Indians. Take an in-depth look at the lives of carvers, weavers, tree-fallers, weathermen and whalers. Presentation is interwoven with humor, legends, song and hands-on artifacts.

All students will weave Cattail Figures or Mats with Harvest Moon

Museum Tour and one Art Workshop: $4.50/student, teachers and chaperones free.

HARVEST MOON is a Quinault Tribal Ambassador, master basketmaker, storyteller, and keeper of her tribe's heritage. She has appeared as an extra in Northern Exposure.

Meets Education EALR's in History, Civics, Economics and Geography.

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