Cache

 This diorama of the buffalo jump is very well done.

Plains tribes would make thorough use of the bison. Pemmican was made from mashing together meat, bison fat, and berries, and stored for food later. They would do this with mallets.

The peoples of the Atlantic coast took to fishing and maritime hunting. Their own tools were suited to the purpose.

In the boreal forest, hunting required different tools.

The people in what is now Ontario's north began working copper 7000 years ago. A cache of copper and other objects was found along the shores of Lake Nipigon many years ago. Some of them are displayed here, alongside contemporary reproductions. If you're familiar with copper, you know that over time the metal takes on a green tone.

In the Pacific Northwest, villages of plank houses became the norm, and people took to the rivers and the sea for fishing.

The shishalh community today is descended from such people. An archaeological find that included cooperation between the community and archaeologists from this museum and the University of Toronto resulted in a vivid reconstruction that I'll show you tomorrow.