Nehawka Primitive Skills

 Making a bone fishhook from the phalanx bone of a deer leg is tedious work requiring scoring, drilling, and scraping.  “Actually, fishhooks...

I acquired several white tail deer leg rawhide skins.  Basically these were skinned, scraped, and dried.  A neck knife sheath was made simpl...

 Mid-summer Jerusalem artichokes

 I was firing some pottery this summer and apparently did not dry and pre-heat sufficiently.  There must have still been moisture in the cla...

Wanted to do an impromptu experiment.  First, I picked the warmest, humid morning I could find while visiting family in Missouri.  I had ...