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Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: The Complete Guide to Making and Using Traditional Tools
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Product Description
An illustrated guide to making Native American tools and weapons using time-honored methods.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #189359 in Books
- Published on: 2004-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
Going through this book, is a lot like attending one of those summer mountain man rendezvous. It's a great lesson in the appreciation of modern convenience and comfort. --Statesman Journal
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From the Back Cover
The history of the implements is provided, along with a primer on working with flint. Complete instruction is then given on:
digging tools
axes
knives
hide scrapers
spear points
arrowheads
baskets and packs
chisels
harpoons
hooks and line
fish traps
fish nets
spear throwers
slings blow guns
bolas
rabbit sticks
game clubs
traps and snares decoys
calls
spears
darts
bows
arrows
tomahawks
clubs
daggers
lances
shields
Richly illustrated with photographs and line illustrations, Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools is perfect for the survivalist, historian, student, or Native American enthusiast.
Customer Reviews
Definitive guide to making Native American tools
Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, And Survival Tools is the definitive instructional guide to making Native American tools and weapons. Author Monte Burch takes the reader through all the steps of the basic flint knapping of arrowheads and scrapers to the most complex decorating and finishing techniques of painting and fletching. Of special interest are the chapters dedicated to materials, tools, and the workplace. Readers will learn how to make digging tools, axes, knives, spear points, arrowheads, baskets, harpoons, fish traps, blow guns, tomahawks, traps, lances, shields, and so much more. Enhanced throughout with photographs and line illustrations, Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, And Survival Tools will make an enduringly popular addition to any personal, academic or community library's Native American Studies Collections and is especially recommended reading for survivalists, authors of western novels seeking authenticity in their history backgrounds, and students of Native American history and artifacts.
Vague rehash of better books
"A Guide to Manufacturing Native Replicas with Modern Tools" might be a more accurate title. Nothing new offered here, just skimpy information that lacks many details and has the feel of material skimmed from other, more informative books. Birch clearly has experience with some of the skills yet his ability to translate knowledge to paper is lacking. Someone who knows what they are doing can fill in the often large gaps in the information, but then they don't need the book, do they? I always look for the one piece of new information that merits the purchase of a book and was hard pressed to find one here. I should add that Burch is a "professional" author and writes from that vantage point rather than from that of a practitioner of the skills he covers.
Disappointed
I was dissapointed after reading this book.
Must detail was missing and I was left asking many questions.
