Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Creating Arrowheads, Axes, and Other Early American Implements
Here is the most comprehensive guide to making your own Native American tools and weapons. This reference 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. Fully illustrated with photographs and line illustrations, this is the perfect book for the survivalist, historian, student, or Native American enthusiast.


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Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Creating Arrowheads, Axes, and Other Early American Implements
Here is the most comprehensive guide to making your own Native American tools and weapons. This reference 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. Fully illustrated with photographs and line illustrations, this is the perfect book for the survivalist, historian, student, or Native American enthusiast.


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Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Creating Arrowheads, Axes, and Other Early American Implements

Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Creating Arrowheads, Axes, and Other Early American Implements

by Monte Burch
Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Creating Arrowheads, Axes, and Other Early American Implements

Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Creating Arrowheads, Axes, and Other Early American Implements

by Monte Burch

Overview

Here is the most comprehensive guide to making your own Native American tools and weapons. This reference 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. Fully illustrated with photographs and line illustrations, this is the perfect book for the survivalist, historian, student, or Native American enthusiast.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493065530
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 05/01/2022
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

MONTE BURCH has been writing about the outdoors for five decades. He has written thousands of magazine articles and more than fifty books. He lives in Fair Grove, Missouri.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Part I Flint Knapping 1

Chapter 1 Materials 3

Chapter 2 Tools and Workplace 13

Chapter 3 Basic Knapping 19

Chapter 4 Making Arrowheads 31

Chapter 5 Other Types of Tools 41

Part II Arrows 45

Chapter 6 Materials 47

Chapter 7 Making Self-Arrows from Shoots 53

Chapter 8 Split Shafts and Reed Arrows 61

Chapter 9 Painting, Finishing, and Fletching 75

Chapter 10 Points 83

Part III Bows 87

Chapter 11 Bow-Building Materials 89

Chapter 12 Splitting and/or Rough-Sawing the Stave 101

Chapter 13 Creating Self-Bows 107

Part IV Bowstrings and Quivers 133

Chapter 14 Bowstrings 135

Chapter 15 Quivers and Such 145

Part V Food Gathering, Cooking, and Other Tools 161

Chapter 16 Baskets 163

Chapter 17 Pottery 171

Chapter 18 Woodenware 179

Part VI Fishing Took 185

Chapter 19 Spears and Harpoons 187

Chapter 20 Traps and Nets 195

Chapter 21 Hook and Line 203

Part VII Hunting Tools 207

Chapter 22 Clubs, Slings, Rabbit Sticks, and Bolas 209

Chapter 23 Lances, Spears, and Darts 213

Chapter 24 Traps and Snares 221

Chapter 25 Camouflage, Lures, Decoys, and Calls 227

Part VIII Warfare 235

Chapter 26 Lances, Spears, and Coup Sticks 237

Chapter 27 Knives, Dirks, and Daggers 241

Chapter 28 Clubs and Axes 247

Chapter 29 War Shields 251

Index 255

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