And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Nice - I worked as a student archaeologist in central Texas and northern New Mexico in college, and we had a couple of flint napping demos by people who really new what they were doing, using natural stone hammers and antler pressure flakers. I was always amazed at how quickly they could make really beautiful arrowheads and spear points. But then occasionally they'd make a mistake and ruin what was almost a finished product. The points I always thought were most beautiful were the Clovis and Folsom designs.
Learned napping many decades ago reading Errett Callahan's work. He sells a nice set up to nap. http://errettcallahan.com/ I read also about Ishi, the last wild Indian in North America; read Theodora Kracaw; "Ishi in Two Worlds." He lived his last years as a living exhibit at the Natural History Museum in San Francisco. Among the many thoings he did to teach about his people, the Yahi, is he made arrow points and gave them to kids. He especially loved using blue glass from medicine bottles. It would be interesting to fins some of those points in collections or tucked into great gandpa's chest of drawers.
Nice - I worked as a student archaeologist in central Texas and northern New Mexico in college, and we had a couple of flint napping demos by people who really new what they were doing, using natural stone hammers and antler pressure flakers. I was always amazed at how quickly they could make really beautiful arrowheads and spear points. But then occasionally they'd make a mistake and ruin what was almost a finished product. The points I always thought were most beautiful were the Clovis and Folsom designs.
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ReplyDeleteLearned napping many decades ago reading Errett Callahan's work. He sells a nice set up to nap. http://errettcallahan.com/ I read also about Ishi, the last wild Indian in North America; read Theodora Kracaw; "Ishi in Two Worlds." He lived his last years as a living exhibit at the Natural History Museum in San Francisco. Among the many thoings he did to teach about his people, the Yahi, is he made arrow points and gave them to kids. He especially loved using blue glass from medicine bottles. It would be interesting to fins some of those points in collections or tucked into great gandpa's chest of drawers.
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