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Meet Tusker ! MONAH ’ s 12,000 year old woolly mammoth door greeter !

Have you ever wondered what the first people who made their homes here ate for dinner , or where it came from ? What tools did they use to plant , harvest and store that food ? Where did they get their clothes and shoes ?

The answers to these and so many more questions await you at the Museum of Native American History ( MONAH ) in Bentonville .

Walk Through Time MONAH provides a place where you can experience the diverse Indigenous cultures of the Americas through two- and three-dimensional pre-historic and historic art . Travel back in time to the long-ago past when woolly mammoths and sabretooth tigers roamed the land , and explore life in North and South America across 24,000 years to now .

Starting with the Paleo period at the end of the Ice Age through the Archaic period , when Native Americans began to hunt , gather , and fish for food ; into the Woodland period , when pottery was used to store that food ; and on to the Mississippian period when the Osage , Quapaw and Caddo tribes lived in Arkansas , you will find thousands of arrowheads , stunning pottery and new-found knowledge of diverse cultures with beautiful lifestyles . By walking through a chronological story , you gain the foundational background of hardships and imaginative engineering these groups underwent to survive and thrive . And when you get to a time of explosive art , color and craft , you have a deeper appreciation of their journey .

Art

People all over the Americas created art with different mediums , colors , styles and stories . See how the Chimu

30 • October 2024 • www . OfficialKidsMag . com