Summary
At the fourth Sun Mountain Gathering on Museum Hill this weekend, parents and children can play at being their own ancestors. There'll be no toasters or microwave ovens and no buttons to push. Visitors to the land of the past can experience time the old-fashioned way and make things by hand. There'll be dancing, food, and time away from the fast lane.
Participants can learn just how much patience it takes to make tools of bone and stone, cook by heating rocks, make natural dyes, bake bread in an horno, cultivate an heirloom garden, and construct a Pueblo field house. Others may want to make silver bracelets and shell jewelry or play Native American games and use a pump drill. For those inclined to make their own art -- particularly the kids -- there'll be yucca leaves to chew into brushes for painting. And while Junior pinches a pot, Mom can toss a replica of the world's oldest weapon, known in these parts as the atlatl.See the full content of this document
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Ancestor Worship
"Last year we had one little 5-year-old boy who just didn't want to go home," said Chris Turnbow, one of the festival's founders and deputy director of the Laboratory of Anthropology. "In the last four years attendance has gone from 900 people to m...
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