Artifact ID Day is a parade of people bringing in cool, weird stuff from their homes to be identified by the Burke Museum’s experts. There are alien objects of all kinds: ancient tools, mysterious stone sculptures, woven grass dolls, cups made from walrus tusks. (I’ve got an heirloom snake skin from Pakistan—cobra?—I’ve been meaning to bring in.) Bring a thing, or just hang out and watch the action. Pro tip: It helps if you can explain where and when the object was found. (Burke Museum, UW Campus, www.burkemuseum.org, 1–3:30 pm, $10 museum admission)
Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua.... More by Brendan Kiley
damn, I have boxes of stuff that requires identification! Alas, too far from the Burke to haul the stuff up!
this is an annual event, around the beginning of the year. So neat!