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Today i went to Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. I went to checkout all the exhibits quickly since i had never been to Bowers before. I started with the Chinese Exhibits starting from the neolithic age. There were robes, jade pottery, weapons from the warring periods and even pictures of the terracotta warriors. I moved to the pacific islands exhibit full of interesting necklaces made of bones and giant masks used in ceremonies. The last exhibit i visited was the look into the first Californians and the history of the California missions, that really interested me since i am taking a class in California History. Some of the stuff i could not believe were actually made so long ago. Some of the Chinese robes looked like something on a movie set not something made and worn by people living thousands of years before I was born. On some of the war shields from New Guinea, I caught myself looking for any damage on them maybe where an arrow would have hit the shield. I even thought about using a postcard in the Early California exhibit as a primary source for a paper of mine. Before heading into the museum i thought i was gonna spend 45 min tops looking at everything. By the time i was leaving i ended up spending 3 hours in the museum looking at every exhibit and reading everything around the artifacts and the art. I was even looking into the groups that donated some of the artifacts. It was a very interesting experience.