Artifact Artifacts

The artifact I brought is a photograph of my sister and I at the Taquitz Falls, in Palm Springs California. This picture represents a successful hike that brought many tribulations my mom, sister Kailli, and I had to overcome during our adventure into the blazing desert.

Nonverbal communication plays an important part in any interpersonal transaction. Artifacts are ornaments or adornments that communicate messages about us. We choose artifacts for both function and for the message that they say about us. When people enter your space and see an artifact they may interpret it in different ways.

This artifact represents a boat that slaves would be transported to the Americas. The boats that would transport slaves were made of wood and had large sails. These large ships played an important role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade because they could hold many slaves. The drawing on the back of the boat is a diagram of how were the slaves would stay. My boat is made of cardboard and covered in wooden sticks. In addition, there is a sail made of paper, but would normally made of cloth. Boats like this would bring the merchants and colonies money, but would ruin the lives of most

Merriam-Webster defines the word artifact as something created by human usually for a practical purpose: an object remaining from a particular period. In my family, there aren’t a lot of artifacts, but we do have a special artifact that means a lot to my mom’s side of the family. Similar to the way Brazilians celebrate Brazilian Carnival, in New Orleans, we celebrate Mardi Gras. Celebrating Mardi Gras is my family tradition. But my mom and I haven’t been in years due to school complications and other commitments. Every year when my mom and I miss Mardi Gras we go to the basement and find different Mardi Gras beads, and where them all day.

With Atahualpa as their hostage, the Spaniards began sacking the city, stripping sacred religious objects from the temples of the sun and moon. Atahualpa, saw that the Spaniards valued gold and silver so highly. Therefore he made Pizarro an offer he knew he could not refuse. In exchange for his freedom, The Emperor promised to fill his massive prison cell with gold that extended as high as Pizarro could reach his hand with two rooms with silver. This was one of the artifacts that was there. I picked this artifact because it looks unique and different I’m tired of always seeing the same stuff so I decided to chose this one.

Choosing an artifact for the box was an easy decision. I chose to put a picture of my dog, Chocolate, because he is very important to me. He is a two year old Schnoodle (half Schnauzer half Poodle) who we rescued from the animal shelter.  It will be exciting to look back at what he looked like as a puppy.  The artifact portrays me well since I love my dog and he is a big part of my life. It shares

The Interact Club could organize a school supplies drive or classroom supplies drive. This drive would be organized as to where member of the Interact Club would contact local schools and be provided with a list of school supplies or basic supplies for a classroom. Members of the club would then get the word out to students organizing the delivery of the supplies and getting them back to the local schools.

The third artifact I chose to do was a poem with the word appreciation written down and then words branching off of each letter with the same meaning as appreciation. The words are a great attitude that people make towards each other. I chose to do this poem because it helps people understand what the words really mean and how people should appreciate the things that have going for them in their lives, also to be kind to people when they are trying to be kind to you. Peers always say, “ Treat others the way you want to be treated”. Our peers are right because how you treat others is the way they will treat and appreciate you more. It ties in with my larger theme because I’ve learned to appreciate things in life before it’s too late.

Schein (as cited in Baumgartner, 2009) describes artifacts as follows: ‘At the surface we have the level of artifacts, which include all the phenomena that one sees, hears, and feels when one encounters a new group with an unfamiliar culture. Artifacts would include the visible products of the group such as the architecture of its physical environment, its language, its technology and products, its artistic creations, and its style as embodied in clothing, manners of address, emotional displays, myths and stories told about the organization, published lists of values, observable rituals and ceremonies, and so on’.

First of all, Artifact 3 was the oldest and had the highest price. It also was the smallest object out of the assemblage. However, there could be other explanations for these two differences other than the age difference. Instead, Artifact 3 was a Chop Suey Bowl, something that is made for only a few types of foods.

The artifact I choose this week to discuss was the hammer of Thor which dates back to the Viking Age and to Norse mythology. The history of the Mjölnir which was the hammer of Thor the Norse god related to thunder. Who was known as the indefatigable god who guarded Agard, home of the Aesir tribe of gods, and goddesses of Norse mythology. Thor was to prevent all who tried to destroy Asgard and kill Aesir and he did so with the use of his hammer. From all the symbols related to Norse mythology Thor’s hammer was among one of the most historically important and mostly the best known today.

This artifact, at first glance appears to be made of copper because of the greenish blue color. Upon closer inspection though you can see rust, and copper doesn't rust, it oxidizes. Which leads me to believe that it is some other sort of metal. This object appears to be no more than an inch, and doesn't appear to be very wide. As I stated before, it has a greenish blue color to it. It appears to be rough, but the roughness and the rust makes me believe that it is weathered, so it most like could have been smooth when it was first crafted. There appears to be no movable parts to it and there is a indentation on the front that may have been a design or something written on it at one point in time.

When I was young, an English class wasn’t necessarily called English. In my elementary years, English was split in two: Reading and Writing. Throughout those years Reading classes is mostly reading, and Writing is mostly writing. Then a new chapter of my life started, the day I found out about literacy, it leans more towards reading than writing. Literacy is just, old or new stories, poems, folk tales, and letters. My two artifacts are from English 10. The thesis is the main part of an essay; it sums up the whole essay in one sentence. Both of my artifacts has to do something about thesis statement.

The artifact is a fundraiser flyer I created using Microsoft Word. The fundraiser was created to not only to unite the school and community but to raise donation for the annual eighth grade field trip to New York City. The document exhibits my proficiency in word art, clip art, and the use of a template. I was able to change front color, outline a border, and insert pictures to the flyer. In creating this fundraiser flyer, I demonstrated that I know how to “contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.”

Artifacts can come in all different shapes and sizes. In the case of the artifacts present in the Cobb Museum, it is clear that the smaller artifacts tend to be on the New World side while the larger objects tend to be on the Old World side. New World artifacts tend to be relatively small in size. The largest objects were pottery objects, and those themselves were not more than a foot tall. The smallest objects were arrow heads, some a mere inch tall and some several inches tall. In contrary, the artifacts of the Old World tended to be quite larger in size. Artifacts such as the Moabite Stone, sarcophagus of Eshmunazar, King Amenehotep II statue, the Roseta Stone, and the Code of Hammurabi were all enormous artifact, ranging from about three feet to over eight feet tall.