What Is That, Part II: Mrs. Loomis & Ms. Wimmer's Classes Guess

In anticipation of their museum field trip, Whitehall Elementary third and fourth-grade students were asked to try and identify a mystery item from the museum's thousands of artifacts. Mrs. Head and Mrs. McLean's students provided written guesses last week; here are Mrs. Loomis's and Ms. Wimmer's student guesses via quick interviews with the Ledger.

• It looks like a conductor of some sort. It would conduct electricity, like those towers outside. It kind of looks like one of those but in a smaller version. And, let's see, it looks about 50 years old. Amelia Schober

• I think it's a hat. You pu...