Class Description
Can hammers really be right or left-handed? Curious about flint-knapping? Want to learn what an early vegetable scraper looked like? Join the Cashmere Museum & Pioneer Village in an evening of discussion, conversation, and hands-on activities geared toward collapsing the millennia between us and our ancestors. Tom Prang, a Museum Board Member and Lexie Palmer-Gapper, Director of the Museum, bring elements of the Cashmere Museum to Pybus University, giving you insights into how tools have developed, what your five senses can tell you about unknown objects, and see a demonstration on flint-knapping.
Instructor Bio
Tom Prang holds an M.S. in Curriculum/Instruction from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; a B.A. in Anthropology also from SIU, Carbondale; and attended the Northwestern University Archaeology Field School in Evanston, IL. He blends his academic backgrounds in archaeology and education with a diverse work history, including back-country guide, wild-land firefighter, naturalist, researcher, park ranger, flint-knapper, bear monitor, and field archaeologist. As a hunter, subsistence fisher, gleaner, and trapper, he has spent much time in the back-country learning skills for survival and navigation. Using both prehistoric and modern technology, Tom works with materials such as jade, mammoth ivory, bone, slate, wood, shell, fur, antler, and chalcedony to create museum-quality replicas for educational programs. He currently lives in Leavenworth, WA.
Lexie Palmer-Gapper holds an M.A. in Early Modern Dutch Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, an M.Litt. in Modern and Contemporary Art from Christie’s Education, London; and a B.A. in Art History from Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. She is the Director of the Cashmere Museum & Pioneer Village, and enjoys teaching and learning about all areas of art history and material culture. She currently lives in Ellensburg, WA.
This class will be held virtually. Register using the link below and more details will be sent out prior to the class.
