Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology
Learn what it was like to grow up an Indian in the southwestern United States or find out about the processes used in discovering how the ancient people of the Yadkin River Valley lived at this anthropology museum at Wake Forest University.
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The Museum’s permanent exhibits consist of objects from the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, including household and ceremonial items, textiles, hunting and fishing gear, and objects of personal adornment. Materials collected by Moravian missionaries can be found here, as well as prehistoric artifacts from North Carolina’s Yadkin River Valley.
The Museum offers curriculum based programs for grades K through 8 during the school year. Teachers are offered a newsletter called World Voices which will ‘help them navigate the educational events and programs the Museum of Anthropology offers.” Contact Kim Robertson at (336) 758-5282 or email robertkd@wfu.edu for more information.
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