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Buffalo Island: Mule Shears, Arkansas

As told by Buffalo Island Central EAST Students
Buffalo Island, Arkansas

Story Narrative:

An elderly man stands next to a wall with many historic tools and points to a pair of large scissors.

Arkansas residents Rudy and Doodle discuss the mule shears on display in the Buffalo Island Museum in Arkansas. This story is connected to Buffalo Island Central EAST's online story map From Swamp to Farmland and interactive exhibits at the Buffalo Island Museum, which both trace the the history of agriculture in the area. Either click on the video to watch it or follow the instructions below to make it magically come to life like it does in the Museum by scanning the "Mule Shears" picture in the HP Reveal app.

Doodle (00:05): You know what this is?

Rudy (00:06): Yep. I used to cut-

Doodle (00:09): That's to cut mules' hair with. Roll your comb down the back of the neck and the manes, that's what [inaudible 00:00:15] like that.

Rudy (00:15): I've got a pair of them at the house. These things here, they turn over where this here will lay on top of that one.

Doodle (00:25): Yeah.

Rudy (00:25): You've got pressure then.

Doodle (00:27): Time you sheared them horses, they was tired of them. It was hard. That was hard work. The one thing about it, you didn't have to do every day.


Asset ID: 8686
Themes: The Way We Worked, agriculture, Arkansas, students, tools, antiques, history, Augmented Reality, AR, animals
Date recorded: 2018
Length of recording: 00:33 s
Related traveling exhibition: The Way We Worked
Sponsor or affiliated organization: Buffalo Island Central High School, EAST (Environmental and Spatial Technology, Inc.); Buffalo Island Museum, Arkansas
More informationhttps://museumonmainstreet.org/blog-node/storytelling-augmented-reality-rural-arkansas

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