Daily Archives: July 3, 2023

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Reveal

The photograph in the Ragtag Daily Prompt guess yesterday is of a beach object. I was sure that it was a fossil, but a fossil WHAT? I picked it up about a year ago.

Last week a friend comes by and says, “Oh, I know. It’s a mammoth tooth.”

REALLY?! I am thrilled. And go search the internet.

https://www.burkemuseum.org/news/mammoth-find-sequim

Mammoths turn out to be Washington State’s state fossil. Mammoths are also the state fossil of a bunch of other states. Texas doesn’t have a state fossil, it has a state dinosaur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_fossils

Other people have found mammoth fossils on the beaches here.

A big find: Mammoth molar discovered on Sequim beach

And they have found mammoth remains, including teeth. Mine is just part of a tooth. The chewing edge is shown in today’s photograph.

Did you guess?

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Water vessel

This is a brazen water vessel that belonged to my grandparents. My maternal grandmother was born in Turkey, because her parents were Congregationalist missionaries to Turkey, my great grandfather running Anatolia College. They were escorted to the border in 1915, when my grandmother was 16 years old. Thrown out.

I have a picture of my mother, dressed in a Turkish outfit, with it on her shoulder. I wish I had more of the story!

For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: brazen.