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

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.