Primitive Skills and Crafts

Living close with the Earth

Remembering and Preserving Ancient Skills

Above: Raw stone

Right: White : Deer BoneBlack : Obsidian

PrimitivePoints

Left: Amethyst in a primitive vice

A tool roped in raw hide

Primitive Flint Knapping Tools

Above: Leather for safety and stones for abrading

Left to right: Moose antler billet, two deer antler pressure flakers, two copper pressure flakers, copper shearing tool, and lead filled copper billet

Modern Flint Knapping Tools

Long shaft in center is an Ishi stick

Named after the Native American Ishi

A Master Bow maker and Flint Knapper

Center: raw piece of nettleTwine: bark, cattail, nettle

Everything needed for wrapping arrowhead points on shafts with natural sinew, pitch glue, amber sap, roasted egg shells.

Fire Tools

A Bow Drill Set•Fireboard•Spindle•Handhold•Bow

Tinder bundle

•Spindle

•Fire board

•Handhold

•Bow

•Tinder bundle

•Birch bark coal extender catch

Complete Bow Drill Set

Osage Orange Bow in Action

Hafting Method

Spears for Fishing

Spear head

•Brain tanned hide bag

•Turkey feather arrow

•Osage orange bow

•Coyote hip bone

•Feather arrow•Cordage•Fish spear•Hide bag•Hip bone

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