Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: The Complete Guide to Making and Using Traditional tools - Hardcover

Burch, Monte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159228020X ISBN 13: 9781592280209

Verlag: The Lyons Press, 2004

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Here is the most comprehensive guide yet to making your own Native American tools and weapons. A valuable reference to these ancient arts, MAKING NATIVE AMERICAN HUNTING, FIGHTING, AND SURVIVAL TOOLS takes you through the steps of the basic flint knapping of arrowheads and scrapers to the most complex decorating and finishing techniques of painting and fletching. Also included are chapters on material, tools, and the workplace.
The history of the implements is provided, along with a primer on working with flint. Complete instruction is then given on: .

digging tools . axes . knives . hide scrapers . spear points . arrowheads . baskets and packs . chisels . harpoons . hooks and line . fish traps . fish nets . spear throwers . slings . blow guns . bolas . rabbit sticks . game clubs . traps and snares . decoys . calls . spears . darts . bows . arrows . tomahawks . clubs . daggers . lances . shields

Richly illustrated with photographs and line illustrations, MAKING NATIVE AMERICAN HUNTING, FIGHTING, AND SURVIVAL TOOLS is perfect for the survivalist, historian, student, or Native American enthusiast.

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MONTE BURCH has been writing about the outdoors for four decades. He has written thousands of magazine articles and more than fifty books-including the Field Dressing and Butchering series. He and his wife, Joan, live in Missouri.

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Here is the most comprehensive guide yet to making your own Native American tools and weapons. A valuable reference for these ancient arts, Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools takes you through the steps of the basic flint-knapping of arrowheads and scrapers to the most complex decorating and finishing techniques of painting and fletching. Also included are chapters on material, tools, and the workplace.
The history of the implements is provided, along with a primer on working with flint. Complete instruction is then given on:

digging tools
axes
knives
hide scrapers
spear points
arrowheads
baskets and packs
chisels
harpoons
hooks and line
fish traps
fish nets
spear throwers
slings blow guns
bolas
rabbit sticks
game clubs
traps and snares decoys
calls
spears
darts
bows
arrows
tomahawks
clubs
daggers
lances
shields

Richly illustrated with photographs and line illustrations, Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools is perfect for the survivalist, historian, student, or Native American enthusiast.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Lyons Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 159228020X
• ISBN 13: 9781592280209
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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