POSSIBLE QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR ARTIFACT YOU WILL NEED TO RESEARCH

1. What is the history of this object/artifact:  What is interesting or little known about it? 

2. Is the name of this object derived from Latin or Saxon roots, or in any way meaningful/significant?

3. Did this object once fulfill a purpose it no longer has? Is its design related to that of an obsolete or technically unrelated object? Why?

4. Is this object a creation of need, or of marketing?  Explain.

5. Were there/are there attempts to attach some kind of status to this artifact?  Is there a nostalgic element to it?