Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: The Complete Guide To Making And Using Traditional Tools - Softcover

Burch, Monte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599210932 ISBN 13: 9781599210933

Publisher: Lyons Press, 2007

Synopsis

An illustrated guide to making Native American tools and weapons using timehonored methods.

About this title

About the Author

MONTE BURCH has been writing about the outdoors for four decades. He has written thousands of magazine articles and more than fifty books-including the Field Dressing and Butchering series. He and his wife, Joan, live in Missouri.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599210932
• ISBN 13: 9781599210933
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272