Nehawka Primitive Skills

The sleet was coming down as I decided to put the large Keokuk spall, from the previous post, to work. I had mentioned that my first impress...

Rumaging around I came across my deer leg bone drill extension for the bowdrill. Kennie Sherron presented this idea, which John McPherson i...

Got home today and immediately grabbed a mullein stalk and split it in three sections..."hello" kiss from the wife would have to w...

I had been thinking about trying this technic with a mullein today. When I came home the first thing I came across was an 3-foot long yucca...

I had read that other primtive skill practitioners had used cattail stalk for handdrill fire making. Having worked with the handdrill for ye...

I had the day off work and decided to do some deep cleaning behind furniture...what a good hubby I am...lol. That's where everything g...

There was a variation of the bow drill introduced, by John Olsen to the primitive skills community, at the 2001 Winter Count rendezvous in A...

Millenia ago, when man crossed the landscape, all he had to depend on were his wits and the resources that nature provided. He learned to f...

The yucca's are in bloom this past week. Their cream-colored flower petals, eaten raw, are a right of summer. In a couple of months I...