MU Museum of Anthropology program shares world culture with children

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 | 7:26 p.m. CST; updated 7:35 p.m. CST, Tuesday, January 20, 2009

COLUMBIA — Among other things, 6-year-old Isaac Van Doren knows that Northwest American Indians used seal intestines to create waterproof clothing, that the four character types in a traditional Thai puppet drama are joker, princess, hermit and demon, and that Mesoamerican peoples used an elaborate calendar system to name children after the day on which they're born.

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