​TRUNK CONTENT ABOUT OSAGE FOODS
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Osage Foods Flip Book:  This book illustrates a range of wild and cultivated plant foods that Osage people have eaten in past centuries and continue to eat today.
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Plush Bison and Elk:   The Osages regularly hunted these animals for meat to eat.  The Osages also used the hide, bone, horn, and antler to make clothing, tools, and other objects.

Fake Foods:  These include synthetic versions of Osage foods that can be handled. Fake foods include corn, pumpkin, squash, strawberries, blackberries, grapes, onions, pecans, and mussels.
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Dried Plant Foods: The trunk includes a pouch of dried lotus root slices (yonkapin) and a pouch of dried corn kernels.​