Things added in April, 2008
Knapping
I was striking flints together yesterday. The sun was shining just after the rain and the birds were singing. At first i wasn't sure the smell was coming from the flint. It ...
Drum
Last Easter in a small gathering I heard the low humming sound of a frame drum. I felt the beat so strongly that I wasn't sure whether it were my ears, my ...
buffalo
It's hard to imagine how a man can hunt a buffalo on foot with a spear. He would fire harden the spear's head or knapp a stone to a point, then fasten ...
A Visit to the British Museum
In the North America section of the British Museum, there are a few buckskin robes. they are decorated with beads and pigments. One beautiful shirt is painted with a pattern of small ouitlined ...
Smoked Buckskin
The finished hide of a small roe deer doe. Fleshed. Bucked for a week in lye. Grained on a beam. washed in a the river overnight. Membraned. left to dry. soaked in eggs. rubbed and stretched for 6 hours to ...
Chauvet
In the cave of Chauvet there is a painting... well more of a sketch of a mammoth. the artist outlined the familiar great mammal in black ash, maybe the charcoal'd ...