Making a bone fishhook from the phalanx bone of a deer leg is tedious work requiring scoring, drilling, and scraping.  “Actually, fishhooks were used more sparingly than might be expected. Hooks aren't always as efficient as other techniques of catching fish. This is true today just as it was thousands of years ago. For instance, special events in weather such as receding flood water might supply a community with an easy catch of fish if they are concentrated in small pools. The fact that fishhooks weren't the main choice of ancient cultures for catching fish has been proven from the excavations of archaeological sites around the world. Many of these sites may produce large amounts of fish bones but few or no examples of fishhooks.” -Peter Bostrom

I acquired several white tail deer leg rawhide skins.  Basically these were skinned, scraped, and dried.  A neck knife sheath was made simply by cutting to size, punching holes with an awl, and lacing with buckskin thongs.  The knife is Missouri chert hafted into a Buffalo rib handle secured with sinew.

 

 Mid-summer Jerusalem artichokes

Pottery

 I was firing some pottery this summer and apparently did not dry and pre-heat sufficiently.  There must have still been moisture in the clay, and it blew off a spall.  Grinding the spall to shape, and drilling a hole,  with stone tools, I made a pendant.  The pot was imprinted by rolling a corn cob over the surface before drying.  Pots were often imprinted to make it easier to grip a slippery pot.  Also, the texturing gave the pot more surface area which made heat transfer more efficient during cooking.  This texturing helped to protect the pot from thermal shock.