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Stories Behind the Objects | Gold Nugget Necklace

Length: 5 minutes. Take a close-up look at a Museum of the Rockies artifact in 5 minutes or less! Brought to you by Lisa Verwys, Collections Manager and Registrar for Cultural History, this series explores the stories behind objects from the museum’s history collections.

Explore the story of migration, mining, and love through a gold necklace made of 24 karat nuggets found by Dick Landis in Keystone Mine outside of Norris, Montana.

TOPIC:
Cultural History

RESOURCE TYPE:
Video

GRADE / TARGET AGE:
Grades 3-5 | Grades 6-8 | Grades 9-12 | Secondary Education / Adults

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