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

by Monte Burch (Author)

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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A valuable reference for 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 materials, tools, and the workplace.Along with information on the history of each implement, the construction directions also cover: digging tools - axes - knives hide scrapers - spear points - shields baskets and packs - chisels - harpoons hooks and line - fish traps - fish nets spear throwers - slings - blow guns bolas - rabbit sticks - game clubs trap and snare decoys - calls - spears darts - bows - arrows - tomahawks clubs - daggers - lances Richly illustrated with photographs and line illustrations, Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools is perfect for the historian, student, survivalist, or Native American enthusiast.

Author Biography

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.