Primitive

  1. Although this is not primitive, it is one of my few solar stills.

  2. A couple of kids I bring to the forest to teach, Joe and Brian, at my campsite. You can see my debris hut in the back. Joe is coaxing a well-burned...

  3. Some edible wild buffalo berries I was snacking on near my campsite.

  4. My old primitive tongs made with Yucca cordage.

  5. My turtle shoulder bone cordage shredder.

  6. The tips of my bow, wrapped with sinew.

  7. Deer

  8. A Rabbit brother snared with soaking wet Indian Hemp cordage.

  9. heart wood/sapwood detail on a 3 inch thick diameter Osage Orange tree

  10. My deer bone saw, used flint to chip away saw edge. Use this to saw notches for arrows.

  11. Using a piece of flint to put notch in arrow.

  12. My base board for my bow drill. Made of split Osage Orange well-seasoned branch.

  13. Me splicing sinew together to make another one of my bowstrings.

  14. Me cooking a rabbit over the fire, the true primitive way. I tend to boil meat in my containers but this one I just felt like cooking this way.

  15. Uisn flint to carve out and place notches on a fire-killed willow shaft to make arrow.
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