Be an Object Detective – can you guess what today’s Mystery Object is?
Here are some clues to help you:
Looking at this object, can you guess what material it is made of?
What shapes do you see when you look at this artifact?
What do you think this artifact was used for?
Do we use any tools like this today?
Yesterday’s Mystery Object was an Ink Well.
This is an inkwell. It is made of clay and is used as a container for pen ink. Before the invention of ballpoint pens and fountain pens, people would use bird feathers, called quills, to write. People would dip the end of the quill into the inkwell in order to cover it with ink and then begin to write.