tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50860269912808314252024-03-18T11:38:15.704-02:30ElfshotSticks and Stones. Making a living as a 21st Century Flintknapper and Archaeologist.Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.comBlogger1055125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-71498868747561201532019-04-26T10:47:00.000-02:302019-04-26T10:47:23.660-02:30Groswater and Beothuk Artifact Reproductions<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I dropped off two sets of Newfoundland and Labrador artifact reproductions to Memorial University of Newfoundland's Archaeology Department this morning. One set is Beothuk and the other is Groswater. They will be used in sandbox digs to give archaeology students a taste of excavation prior to attending field school. The sets include a few diagnostic chert, bone, and iron artifacts, along with broken or incomplete tools, cores, and debitage. I break plenty of tools when I'm working on reproductions, and these sorts of orders provide a forever home for broken or failed attempts. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Assemblage of Groswater artifact reproductions. Includes diagnostic artifacts, broken tools, microblades, and lithic debitage. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top Row: Groswater endblade, asymmetric knife, earred endscraper, chipped and ground chert burin-like tool. Bottom Row: Various broken tools (mostly the bases of box based endblades that broke during notching)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beothuk assemblage. Reproductions representing the post-contact Beothuk period and their archaeologically known ancestors (Beaches and Little Passage complexes). The bottom pieces are a hammerstone, flakes, and chert core fragments.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left: Beaches side notched projectile point (top), Little Passage corner-notched projectile point (bottom). Middle: Beothuk iron arrowhead hammered out of a square forged nail. Right: Triangular Biface (top), Beothuk arrowhead (middle), Flake scraper (bottom).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diagnostic Beothuk tools, including a bone comb and gaming piece. The chert pieces on the right are abandoned or broken preforms.</td></tr>
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<i> Photos: Tim Rast</i><br />
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<br />Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-14960547234804846002019-04-02T19:03:00.000-02:302019-04-02T19:03:13.132-02:30Maritime Archaic Reproductions for Port au Choix<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYdc20CynSfbJ1ljcQRB7E2uihgQjpEJDCZbX-j__1DUMsj7Ev5xyjq7qJt_DIoVKQf9jp88mMdQtfeGyVSU-YN6lZiE7aetUDknad9lwQp4grFCShbIxMhjJnub5plhAInc_cRT_Xkb4/s1600/DSCN2532.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>This is a set of reproductions that I recently completed for <a href="https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nl/portauchoix">Port au Choix National Historic Site</a> on Newfoundland's northern peninsula. The set includes a hafted ground stone axe, slate lance, barbed harpoon, bird headed pins and bone needles. Some of these are newly made and others are pieces that I've had in stock and that I've shown on this blog before.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pins and needles have been slightly antiqued to take off the fresh white bone sheen.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the needles have flat cross-sections and are made from bird bones and others have round cross-sections and are made from caribou ribs. All of them have gouged eyes and they range in length from 5-11 cm.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Often when I make these pins, they are intended to be used as hair pins with sealskin barrettes. However, the ones in this photo are intended to be used in display and public programming, so I was able to show more of the variety in the actual pins and pendants and not just the long pointy pin versions. Many of the bird headed bone carvings at Port au Choix adorned shorter pendants, with gouged holes in the shaft opposite the bird head. Presumably these were used as pendants or hung from clothing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The larger, hafted pieces in this set include a ground slate (or argillite) axe hafted into a wooden handle. The axe head is secured with pitch in the hole in the wood which was burned out with hot coals. The rawhide lashing is there to reinforce the handle and prevent it from splitting in use. The harpoon in the middle has a barbed antler harpoon head with a whalebone foreshaft and spruce main shaft. The slate lance is hafted to a wood shaft with spruce pitch glue and gut lashing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ground slate lance head. The lancehead is about 22 cm long, which is on the large end of the spectrum for Port au Choix.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The harpoon is covered in red ochre. The Maritime Archaic certainly covered their bodies and tools with red ochre as part of their burial ceremony, but it is unclear if they used ochre as frequently in day-to-day life as the later (<a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31091-6">and unrelated</a>) Beothuk.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This style of harpoon head is not designed to toggle, although the Maritime Archaic did also make toggling harpoon heads. The barbs would have secured the harpoon head and line to the prey animal - most likely seals.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The harpoon line is braided sealskin. The harpoon is about 72" fully assembled and the lance is about 92". I don't know how long the main shafts of the Maritime Archaic versions of these tools would have been. Generally the tool components are larger than the later Dorset and Groswater Pre-Inuit who lived in Newfoundland, so I tend to make the overall reproductions larger and longer as well.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lance is fixed to the wood shaft. I envision these long straight sided lances as close range piercing tools, especially for penetrating the thick blubber layers of marine mammals. A fixed lance head could be stabbed and pulled out repeatedly. The harpoon head, on the other hand, is designed to detach and stay in the animal with a line attached.</td></tr>
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<i>Photo Credits: Tim Rast</i>Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-70509604131313721312018-11-30T15:31:00.001-03:302018-11-30T15:31:27.140-03:30Stocking The Rooms in time for Christmas!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcqfXLPe0T6Jv3NDGqK3dtAGsKVKg0I6FDuPnc2aD-VRzahWrFrH-oUXY65uI8xybqk5IS8Pa_gpExMl-jyXGpcLZiFHAAO-6l03e73CTCpIusvQCikuhb6ye_ka8GkWeknorKBr1NpOs/s1600/DSCN2078.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1401" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcqfXLPe0T6Jv3NDGqK3dtAGsKVKg0I6FDuPnc2aD-VRzahWrFrH-oUXY65uI8xybqk5IS8Pa_gpExMl-jyXGpcLZiFHAAO-6l03e73CTCpIusvQCikuhb6ye_ka8GkWeknorKBr1NpOs/s200/DSCN2078.jpg" width="142" /></a>I'm just back from dropping off a big Christmas restocking order for <a href="https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/plan-and-book/shops-and-galleries/34693805">The Rooms Gift Shop</a> here in St. John's. The order included a few flintknapping kits and a selection of handmade reproductions of Dorset, Groswater, and Beothuk endblades and arrowheads. Everything is made from Newfoundland chert and the knapped stone tools have been mounted as necklaces, earrings, lapel pins, and tie tacs. For this Christmas season, The Rooms gift shop currently has the best selection of Elfshot jewelry available. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Groswater lapel pins and Dorset earrings.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beothuk necklaces and earrings.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Groswater earrings.</td></tr>
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<i>Photo Credits: Tim Rast</i>Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-31795185236679039132018-11-29T19:52:00.000-03:302018-11-29T19:52:03.172-03:30PalaeoIndian Reproductions<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A foreshaft assembly with a <br />Folsom point based on <br />a theoretical reconstruction</td></tr>
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I'm still around. Although you might not realize that if you follow this blog. I've been plugging away in the studio on reproductions throughout the year and travelling a lot for work. Some of the projects I've worked on have embargoes on them until exhibits are opened or programs aired, which has given me an excuse to be extra lazy on this blog. I'll try to use the end of the year as an incentive to document some of the projects that I've participated in during 2018. </div>
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Here is a look at some pieces that are fresh out the door. These are for a museum exhibit in the US and represent PalaeoIndian artifacts. The reproductions include a fluted Folsom point made from chert, hafted in an antler foreshaft that fits into an antler socket which is glued and lashed to a wooden mainshaft. The mainshaft is cut short for dispaly purposes. Three bone needles, sinew, and a bone thimble (based on an Inuit design) make up part of a sewing kit.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A progress shot of the stone point, antler foreshaft and antler socket pieces. The most important piece for the museum was the foreshaft, so I tried to match that as exactly as possible to the reference drawing. The stone point came out a few millimetres larger than the reference point. I find fluted points very difficult to make and this was my fourth attempt at this spear point and I didn't dare try to work it any more after both flutes came off reasonably well. The socket needed to be a bit longer than the drawing for functional reasons, but overall the final assembly was within a couple centimetres of the illustration.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bone needles and thimble. The bone needles are based on PalaeoIndian artifacts and are made on long bones. The thimble is based on Inuit thimbles in the Canadian Museum of History Collection. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The complete set included some sinew thread to go along with the needles in the sewing kit. All of the pieces are antiqued and the spear shaft was cut short because the storyline of the display focuses on the foreshaft assembly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The museum requested that the sinew lashing be left off of the spear point and foreshaft. Fortunately, the flutes on the Folsom point allow the spear point to be gripped fairly snugly by the foreshaft even without lashing or glues. I don't think I'd trust it for hunting, but in a display and normal handling it is a good, secure fit.</td></tr>
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<i>Photo Credits: Tim Rast</i>Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-44144690056484366812018-05-10T14:53:00.003-02:302018-05-10T14:53:43.787-02:30Repairs for The Rooms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Earlier this winter I completed a few repairs and replacement pieces of toys and games used in programming at <a href="https://www.therooms.ca/">The Rooms</a>. These pieces included replacement counting sticks and dice for waltes games, new artificial sinew and antler sticks for pin and cup games, and new artificial sinew on 22 rawhide buzzers. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wooden waltes discs with ink designs and wood counting sticks with lightly ochre stained ends. These were replacement pieces from existing sets with missing pieces. I didn't make the original sets, but I worked from photos and reference pieces to match the intact pieces.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Antler pin and cup games with artificial sinew cords. The previous antler sticks were broken or lost.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rawhide is very hard wearing and durable. I made these quite a few years ago for The Rooms and even though the old cord wore out there is no wear on the discs.</td></tr>
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<i>Photo Credits: Tim Rast</i>Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-25490054006519394662018-01-12T11:02:00.002-03:302018-01-12T11:02:38.379-03:30Bone and Antler Games for the Canadian Museum of History<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These Bilboquets or pin and cup games are on their way to join the Canadian Museum of History's travelling<a href="http://www.historymuseum.ca/event/kids-celebrate/"> Kids Celebrate</a> exhibition. The pins are all antler and the cups are either long bone sections or caribou antler with the porous interior scraped hollow.</td></tr>
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<i>Photo Credit: Tim Rast</i>Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-32017409347112082682018-01-11T12:39:00.002-03:302018-01-11T12:40:43.368-03:30Beothuk Gaming Pieces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Late last year, I worked on a set of bone Beothuk Game Piece reproductions. They were a birthday present ordered by a friend for her archaeologist husband. I made 13 pieces in total and we selected seven of the nicest pieces to make the gift set. This <a href="http://elfshotgallery.blogspot.ca/2009/12/beothuk-gaming-pieces.html">old blog post</a> discusses some of the primary sources and interpretations of how the game pieces may have been used. The pieces are carved in bone (I primarily use caribou long bones) and decorated with incised lines on one side. They are covered in red ochre. <br />
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Like anything, the more time you spend with a project, the more detail that begins to emerge. All of the known game pieces are either diamond shaped, rectangular, or irregular. A complete set seems to have been composed of three diamond, three rectangular, and one irregular piece. There also seems to be a different approach to the thickness of the different game pieces. The irregular and diamond shaped pieces are quite thin and flat, and often have a slight curve to them, probably from the shape of the bone they are made from. The rectangular pieces are much thicker and blockier. They aren't cubes like a six-sided die, but they are not simple flat tiles like the diamond shaped pieces either. I tried to reflect this difference in the reproductions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carving the designs is a multi-stage process. The final designs are quite complex, so I don't carve them all at once. I begin with the borders and longest lines first and then add progressively more detail in additional carving sessions. You can see my pencil marks on the blanks in this photo. The reproductions are sitting on a sheet of paper that is printed with the original artifacts that I used for reference.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the final set of game pieces for my friend's birthday. It has three diamond shaped pieces, three rectangular pieces and one irregular piece. I'm especially happy with how the ochre took to the bone - they really capture the look and feel of the original artifacts. </td></tr>
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I had a couple requests this summer for reproductions of Dorset Palaeoeskimo walrus ivory polar bear head pendants. I finally finished a set and shipped off the first two late last week. I use the same couple of Dorset artifacts for reference for all of them, but slight differences in the size and the ivory always gives them their own personalities. To me, the larger two look the most natural and look like a male and female. The smaller two are closer in size and style to the reference artifacts. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original artifacts have hollow throats, which<br />
allows them to be suspended on a cord. The<br />
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I'm still working the same few tusks of walrus ivory that I purchased from the West Baffin Co-op in Cape Dorset. It is well seasoned now, but I still take precautions to keep it from drying out and cracking or de-laminating. When I finish a carving like this (and sometimes while they are in progress) I coat the ivory in a generous layer of mineral oil. I use unscented baby oil. The ivory sucks up the oil and it prevents it from drying out. I find that if you wear and handle walrus ivory a lot your natural skin oils will replenish and protect the piece from drying out. If you've purchased an ivory pendant or harpoon head from me in the past, it would probably be a good idea to give it another coating of baby oil every few years. Now would be a good time.<br />
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<i>Photo Credits: Tim Rast</i>Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-32921919308829756302017-10-18T11:51:00.000-02:302017-10-18T11:51:03.001-02:30Reproductions for Qalipu First Nation<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Earlier this week, I completed work on a few different artifact reproductions, tools, and games for the <a href="http://qalipu.ca/">Qalipu First Nation</a>. Some of the pieces, like this waltes set and crooked knife are based on Mi'kmaq culture from Newfoundland and the Maritimes. Others are Maritime Archaic and Beothuk reproductions for use in a mock dig program run on Newfoundland's west coast. The pin and cup games are more generic and have analogs in many different cultures in this part of the world.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crooked knife. This knife is made from a steel file, wood handle and waxed cotton thread. I used several historic Newfoundland Mi'kmaq crooked knives as references for this piece, especially this <a href="http://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/33119/?q=crooked+knife&page_num=4&item_num=7&media_irn=5512660">one</a> in the Canadian Museum of History collection. Other groups in the Province made similar knives, but one of the characteristics that makes the Mi'kmaq version unique is how the blade is secured into the handle. The blade is fit into a slot on the top of the handle and tied into place. In Labrador, it seems more common to cut a socket out of the side of the handle, insert the blade, close the socket with a wooden plug and then lash everything together. The blades in Labrador may also have a bit more of a curve to them at the tip.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ochre stained pieces are all Maritime Archaic; two bird headed bone pins, a bird headed antler comb, and a bird-bone flute. The two broken arrowheads are Beothuk or Little Passage style.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pin and cup games made from long bones and antler for the cups and antler for the pins. I used braided artificial sinew for the cord.</td></tr>
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<i>Photo Credits: Tim Rast</i>Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-6947088405509722972017-09-19T19:25:00.002-02:302017-09-19T19:25:44.267-02:30Onondaga Points for The Canadian Museum of History<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As is often the case, I had a flurry of potential customers contact me early in the summer just as I was heading out the door for a summer of arctic fieldwork. Thankfully, everyone was understanding of my schedule and now that I'm home, I'm getting back into the workshop and getting caught up on orders.</div>
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I shipped the first small order last week; a set of knapped arrowheads made from Onondaga chert to be used in programming this fall at the Canadian Museum of History.</div>
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<br />Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-23551319320843166622017-07-17T15:30:00.001-02:302017-07-17T15:55:10.017-02:30Provincial Historic Sites Reproductions and Games<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Last week, I delivered an order of artifact reproductions and games to the folks at Provincial Historic Sites to use in interpretive programming. One set was a collection of Beothuk hunting tools, including a knife, scraper, deer spear, harpoon, and three arrows. A second batch of games included rawhide buzzers, a waltes set, and pin-and-cup games.</div>
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Some of these pieces are new to me, including the Beothuk lance. I used the archaeology site at Russell's Point as the reference collection for the lithics in the collection. The knife blade, end scraper, arrowheads, and lance head are all based on artifacts found by <a href="http://www.tcii.gov.nl.ca/pao/arch_in_nl/1996/gilbert_1996_russells_point.html">Bill Gilbert in his MA research at Russell's Point</a>. I used a metal endblade on the harpoon because I've only seen metal endblades on Beothuk examples of that implement. It's possible that some of the lithic artifacts that we find in Beothuk sites and classify as arrowheads or triangular bifaces were used to tip harpoon heads, but no one has found one in association with a harpoon head to prove it. Here's a link to a blog post from 2014 where I discuss <a href="http://elfshotgallery.blogspot.ca/2014/02/researching-beothuk-harpoon.html">the references available for Beothuk harpoons and deer spears</a>.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The point of this lance is based on a large bi-pointed artifact found at Russell's Point. It's possible that it was an unhafted bifacial knife, but it was symetrical enough that it's possible that it tipped a long deer spear, similar to the long iron tipped deer spears of the later historic period.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An antler harpoon head with a steel endblade and sinew lashing. Like all of the Beothuk reproductions that I make, it is covered in red ochre. The harpoon head has a line attached and is designed to slip off the end of the long wooden harpoon shaft when it is stabbed into a seal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beothuk style chert knife in a wood handle with sinew lashing and red ochre staining.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hafted endscraper. The endscrapers at Russell's Point were primarily made on flakes and had very rounded scraping edges, especially when compared to similar Palaeoeskimo artifacts from Newfoundland and Labrador.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wood artifacts are very rare form Beothuk archaeological sites. There are a handful of pieces from ethnographic contexts, but things like tool handles are very hard to come by. When I don't have archaeological references to use, I try to fill in the blanks as simply as possible.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beothuk arrow reproductions. Chert, sinew, pine, goose feathers, red ochre</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Beothuk reproductions together.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A buzzer in action. You can do the same thing with a big button twisted on a string. It sounds like the wind when it whirs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waltes. This is a Mi'kmaq game. There are many examples of this game in the Maritimes and it's becoming popular among the Mi'kmaq of Newfoundland. The game is played with a shallow wooden bowl and six game pieces. The game pieces are blank on one side and incised with a design on the other and the game is scored based on the combination of face-up and face-down dice when they are flipped in the bowl. The sticks are used for scoring. Provincial Historic Sites tried unsuccessfully to find a Mi'kmaq craftsperson in the Province to make this game set before coming to me. It would be good to see someone from the Mi'kmaq community making these.</td></tr>
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7, 11, 12, 14: Lori WhiteTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-88495394961423111002017-06-23T09:51:00.000-02:302017-06-23T09:51:18.045-02:30Harpoon Heads for Nunavik Sivunitsavut<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nearly 3000 years of <br />Arctic Harpoon Head evolution</td></tr>
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I shipped a large order of harpoon heads and Dorset and Thule artifact reproductions to <a href="https://sivunitsavut.ca/en/">Nunavik Sivunitsavut</a>, an Inuit post secondary school in Quebec. The reproductions will be handled by students in their archaeology courses. The harpoon heads were particularly interesting for me because of the breadth of examples requested; in total there are fourteen harpoon heads in the set composed of seven Dorset and seven Thule examples. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Assorted Dorset and Thule Artifact reproductions. Chert microblades, knife, and scraper, slate tools, whalebone handles, nephrite Burin-Like Tool. </td></tr>
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My primary reference for the harpoon heads in this collection is the book <i><a href="http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/84993/publication.html">Ancient Harpoon Heads of Nunavut: An Illustrated Guide</a></i> by Robert Park and Douglas Stenton. I made all of the Dorset harpoon heads illustrated in the book and all of the Thule harpoon heads, except for the large whaling harpoon head. There are also three Pre-Dorset examples in the book that we didn't cover here, but otherwise I worked through every page of the publication. <br />
The book was extremely useful in selecting the raw material for each example and planning the general size and design of the pieces. <br />
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As the reproductions neared completion, I also used sources like the Canadian Museum of History online catalogue to see actual photos of the examples as well as primary reports and archaeological publications. Several of the harpoon head designs were new to me, and I've never attempted to make so many different styles all at once. There were days when the rapid switching in the workshop between all of the various designs, materials, and styles kept my head muddled. But over time the bigger patterns emerged and helped me understand the various stages in the sequence. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thule Type 1</td></tr>
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One of the things that struck me was how continuous the sequence actually is. Early and Middle Dorset contrast sharply with more recent Thule and Inuit harpoon heads where design elements like gouged versus drilled holes and dual versus single basal spurs create very different looking implements. However, there is a much more grey area during the Late Dorset and early Thule where designs overlap. In the archaeology of the Eastern Arctic there is a gap between Dorset and Thule and the cultural remains that we usually encounter look very different, but when you look west the differences are a little more subtle. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thule Harpoon Head Reproductions, (left to right); Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, Type 4, and Type 5</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tyara Sliced - Early Dorset. Walrus ivory and chert</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kingait Closed - Middle Dorset. Walrus ivory and chert</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nanook Wasp Waist - Middle Dorset. Walrus ivory.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorset Parallel - Early, Middle and Late Dorset. Antler and Chert.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorset Type G - Late Dorset. Antler and Chert</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorset Type Ha - Late Dorset. Antler</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorset Type J - Late Dorset. Antler</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thule Type 1 - Classic and Postclassic Thule. Antler</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thule Type 2 - Classic and Postclassic Thule. Antler</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thule Type 3 - Classic and Postclassic Thule. Antler and copper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seven Dorset Harpoon Head reproductions.<br />They aren't all finished yet.</td></tr>
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I'm slowly wrapping up a set of 14 arctic harpoon head reproductions. This is the most complete set of Dorset and Thule harpoon heads that I've ever attempted at one time, so I'm excited to see them all finished. I've been working on the whole set at the same time and it's been tough keeping them all straight in my head. On the other hand, it's an interesting opportunity to see first hand the similarities and differences over time and between the cultures. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seven Thule Inuit harpoon head reproductions. All of the pieces are there, I just need to finish the details and do some assembly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The full set, plus a Beothuk harpoon head (lower left) from a seperate order.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These four are more-or-less complete. They may need a little bit of dry sanding and maybe one or two slight adjustments, but I don't need to cart them back and forth from the workshop with all the others for the time being. Twelve o'clock is a Middle Dorset Kingait Closed harpoon head made from walrus ivory with a chert endblade. Three o'clock is a Thule Type 2 harpoon head made from antler. Six o'clock is a Middle Dorset Nanook Wasp Waist selfbladed harpoon head made from ivory. Nine o'clock is a Late Dorset Type G harpoon head made from antler with a chert endblade.</td></tr>
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We stopped at <a href="http://www.kingspointpottery.com/">King's Point Pottery</a> on the way to Port au Choix for this weekend's flintknapping workshop to delivery an order of colourful fibre optic knapped jewellery. King's Point Pottery is open year round and the shop has grown a lot since I last visited with new products from tonnes of new crafts people. The ice is still in the harbour and we enjoyed the fresh air and sights around town during our brief stop on our way west.<br />
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Preparation for this weekend's <a href="http://elfshotgallery.blogspot.ca/2017/05/flintknapping-workshop-may-27-28-port.html">workshop in Port au Choix</a> is well under way. I have a radio interview this morning and I'll be packing the car today with all of the rock and materials that we'll need for the two day course. The gift shop in Port au Choix has been stocking my artifact reproductions and jewellery for more than 15 years and I have a small top up order of earrings to delivery for the upcoming season. Parks Canada also ordered a few new reproductions to illustrate Dorset Palaeoeskimo seal processing at the site.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side hafted microblade, bevelled edged tabular slate scraper, chert knife, and endscraper, </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">This was my first time making a hafted tabular slate scraper like this. Over the years an assortment of slate tools have been recovered from Dorset Palaeoeskimo contexts at Port au Choix. Rebecca Knapp studied these tools for her MA thesis at MUN: <br /><a href="http://research.library.mun.ca/9100/">An analysis of tabular slate tools from Phillip's Garden (EeBi-1), a Dorset Palaeoeskimo site in Northwestern Newfoundland</a>. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This particular class of slate tools, tends to have a straight unifacially beveled distal end. The sides may be square or slightly taper and are often bifacially bevelled, with an additional third abrading pass to blunt the bifacial lateral bevels. The bases have long, narrow, tapering stems. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To the best of my knowledge there haven't been any handles found associated with this style of slate scraper. I chose to haft it similar to a large endscraper, perhaps the larger size of the slate scrapers indicate that they were used in a two handed fashion. It's also possible that they would have been hafted to a more complex handle at a 90 degree angle, like an adze. This is possible, but I think that the relatively weak stem would function better inline with the handle and direction of force, like this reproduction.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chert knife in an antler handle, with twisted sinew lashing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chert microblade, side-hafted into a wood handle with a whalebone brace tied in place with twisted sinew.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chert endscraper in a wood handle with twisted sinew lashing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lately, I've been using more twisted sinew for Dorset reproductions because that is how most preserved sinew in Dorset contexts has been found. If the reproductions are display pieces or if they are for my own collection, then I keep the sinew dry. It is possible to wrap and tie off the dry sinew very snuggly without the use of any adhesives. In this case I've added a layer of hide glue. The glue isn't necessary to keep the tools together, but it will protect the sinew and make them more durable in a hands on setting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few pairs of glass an stone earrings for the Heritage Shop in Port au Choix.</td></tr>
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<i>Photo Credits: Tim Rast</i>Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-68540170833725180032017-05-16T09:40:00.001-02:302017-05-16T09:40:13.061-02:30Flintknapping Workshop, May 27 & 28, Port au Choix, NL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Please join me at Port au Choix National Historic site for a two day Flintknapping Workshop on May 27 and 28th. Parks Canada is sponsoring this event and it is FREE to anyone over the age of 16, with all materials and lunch provided. On Saturday, you will learn the basics of flintknapping and on Sunday you will be hafting your stone tools into wooden hafts using traditional techniques and materials.</div>
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<br />Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-17707068965662881972017-05-04T19:30:00.001-02:302017-05-04T19:30:17.661-02:30You want how many?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I started a fun new order today for <a href="https://sivunitsavut.ca/en/">Nunavik Sivunitsavut</a>. I'm making 14 harpoon heads from ivory, antler and whalebone to represent much of the variability that is found in Dorset and Thule culture artifacts from the Canadian Arctic. In 1998, Doug Stenton and Robert Park published a book called <a href="http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/84993/publication.html">Ancient Harpoon Heads of Nunavut: An Illustrated Guide</a>. I've used this publication as a reference many times in the past, but this is the first time that someone has asked me to make ALL of the harpoon heads in the book. The only pieces that I won't be making are the Pre-Dorset examples and one whaling harpoon head. Other than that, I'm making every harpoon head on every page in the book. I started the reproductions this morning and they they are coming along quickly, although I'm sure that Paretto's Law is at play; I've put in the 20% of effort that produces 80% of the results. Finishing these pieces and their accompanying endblades will take at least another week.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The seven harpoon heads in the upper left hand corner are all Dorset Palaeoeskimo styles. The seven running through the middle are all Thule Inuit. The loner in the lower right hand corner is a Beothuk reproduction for another order. This will be the most diverse collection of harpoon heads that I have every produced at one time.</td></tr>
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Here's a look at the completed reproductions that I made for Alaska Archaeology Month. The set included six slotted antler projectile points (two of which were hafted onto arrows) and 4 pairs of sandstone shaft smoothers. It should be noted that the antler points may or may not have been hafted onto arrows. These artifacts have not been found in a complete state, so it's possible that they tipped other tools like lances or darts. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sandstone shaft smoothers. The arrow shafts gave me a chance to use the shaft smoothers and they worked well for smoothing, polishing, and burnishing the arrows. You can see the brownish discoloured plant residue collecting in the channels of the stones.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every year, the Alaska Anthropological Associations Public Education Group coordinates the production of a themed poster for archaeology month. This year's theme was Paleoarctic. You can view and download these posters from their <a href="https://www.alaskaanthropology.org/archaeology-month/archaeology-month-posters/">website</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The complete set - four unhafted slotted points, two arrows, and four pairs of shaft smoothers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The arrow design was speculative, so I made each arrow a diffent length and gave one two feathers and the other three. When I'm reproducing a specific artifact, I try to follow the original piece to the nearest millimetre, but when I'm speculating or filling in gaps, then I try to build in as much variability as possible. I don't want to give people the impression that I know exactly what the missing pieces looked like and if I make every reproduction the same, then my own personal style may become confused with a meaningful representation of actual artifacts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think I like this one the best. It certainly photographs well.</td></tr>
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<br />Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-54703157010723559582017-04-28T15:55:00.001-02:302017-04-28T15:55:15.924-02:30Reproductions for NLAS Edukit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Here's an overdue look at the reproductions that I recently completed for a new exhibit in a suitcase that is being designed and assembled by Robyn Lacy for the Newfoundland and Labrador Archaeological Society. The pieces that I made primarily represent the Indigenous and Pre-Contact cultures of the Province. The diverse array of materials used in the reproductions include wood, antler, ivory, whalebone, sealskin, sinew, slate, chert, steel, caribou bone, red ochre, and cotton cordage. In addition to the pieces that I made, Robyn gathered and made several more pieces that represent the Norse and European presence in the province. Using reproductions allows the edukit to be used in a much more interactive way than if it was stocked with real artifacts.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roughing out the composite pieces, including a slate ulu, wood snow goggles, and a steel crooked knife. The small object in the middle is a reproduction of a Dorset polar bear head carving made from walrus tusk ivory.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snow googles (Inuit), Maritime Archaic slate lance, Dorset knife, Beothuk arrowhead, Palaeoeskimo hafted side-scraper, Maritime Archaic whalebone barbed fish spear prong, ground slate ulu (Inuit), roof slate (Historic European), polar bear head carving (Dorset), Beothuk pendant, and crooked knife (Mi'kmaq/Innu)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wood snow goggles are reproductions of Inuit goggles used to prevent snow blindness on bright spring days seal hunting. The leather straps are sealskin and they are lashed in place with sinew.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ground slate ulu, with a wood handle and sinew lashing. This reproduction is based on a slate ulu blade from Labrador that is on display in The Rooms. The arrowhead in the upper right hand corner is a Little Passage or Beothuk style point.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made two different styles of Dorset polar bear head carvings. The more natural carving on the left is the one in the kit. The one on the right is a highly stylized 2D carving of a bear head.</td></tr>
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<i>Photo Credits: Tim Rast</i><br />
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I've completed a set of reproduction antler points with inset microblade side blades and am in the process of hafting two of them to arrow shafts. I showed progress shots of these points in the previous blog post and I got lots of feedback and good questions. One of the comments was regarding the width of the exposed microblade cutting edge, so I went back to my reference materials for guidance. The primary reference that I was supplied with is a recent paper by Craig Lee and Ted Goebel called <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20555563.2015.1136727">"The Slotted Antler Points from Trail Creek Caves, Alaska: New Information on Their Age and Technology".</a> The whole article is freely available online. Although none of the points were found with microblades in situ in the side slots, the author's did measure the depth of the slots and the widths of the microblades found associated with the points and determined that if the microblades were set in the slots, then the exposed edge would be 2-5 mm wide. I used that 2-5 mm width as my tolerance for the reproductions and wound up changing several of the designs that I had previously shared. <br />
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Since the previous blog post, I have glued all of the microblades in place. The orginal artifacts did not contain traces of adhesives, so I had some freedom to experiment. In the end, I used hide glue on five of the eight points and pine pitch on the remaining three. There were pros and cons of both methods and by the end of the process, I think that I preferred the pine pitch option. <br />
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When I made the antler points, I soaked the antler in water to make it more pliable and easier to cut and carve. Wet antler makes a significant difference in how easily antler can be worked, especially with stone tools (not to imply that I used stone tools to carve these - I used a combination of metal tools and rotary sanders and saws for most of the shaping). The antler was still wet when I began fitting the microblades and because it was still so soft, I could press the blades into the side-slot and they would stick in place. This let me plan out the position of the microblades and I could roughly assemble the point with all of the microblade fragments stuck in sequence. Hide glue is gelatin mixed with warm water, so it seemed like a natural adhesive to use to bind the stone blades to the wet antler. It was very simple to remove the blades and glue them back in place and by working with the damp antler I could also press the sharp backs of the blades into the slot or used the microblades to cut and carve the slot to a perfect fit. Then the glue and the antler could dry together. The drying turned out to be the biggest downside to gluing the microblades in place while the antler was still wet. Sometimes when antler dries it will take on a curve or bend that wasn't there initially. That happened in a couple of the points. The curve was slight, but noticeable and difficult to correct with the blades in place. If I re-soak the antler to straighten it, then the hide glue will loosen as well and the blades will become loose. I could also re-carve the antler while it is dry to remove the curve, but now the blades are in the way. It's a small problem, and it's something that I probably could have avoided by clamping the points to a board or something while they dried.<br />
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Using pine pitch as the adhesive meant that I was working with dry, solid antler that won't change shape after the microblades were glued in place. When the antler is dry the slot is stronger than the microblade, so it's not really practical to cut and change the shape of the slot to fit the microblade. The individual blades don't stick in the dry side-slot the same as they do in wet antler either, which meant I couldn't really plan out the whole sequence of blades. Instead I started at the tip and glued the first two blades (one on the left and one on the right) into place, then moved on to the next two and so on. I changed how I planned the project, but in the end I was just as happy with the results and it removed the possibility of unexpected warping from drying. As an added bonus, the pitch is also waterproof, which makes the points less susceptible to damage from rain or snow and means that they could be used for different activities, like fishing. For bigger game, the individual blades are also more likely to stay in place in the point inside the wound cavity. There would be pros and cons to that. Blades that fall out in the wound would cause more damage, but blades that remain in place would make it easier to re-use the point without repair.<br />
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The last step is to haft two of the points onto arrows. The base of the points have a simple scarf joint, so I'm carving the wood arrow shafts with a matching wedge shaped scarf. Working the arrow shafts also gives me an excuse to test out the shaft smoothers. They do their job. The sandstone acts as a sandpaper to smooth the arrow shafts and it also polishes and burnishes the shaft to a clean, shiny finish. A couple of the reference artifacts have grooves cut in the ends or the sides. They look like they may have been carved there so two stones could be tied to together. That logic sounds good, but in practice, tying the two halves together seems pretty unnecessary. The pair of stones work just fine when they are held together in your hand and adding extra lashing seems redundant. The stones in these photos have the grooves on the sides (where the wheels of a car go) but the most complete reference shaft smoother that I saw had the grooves on the ends (where the headlights and tail lights go).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the shaft smoothers have grooves on the edges of the ends that appear to be designed to accept some sort of cordage or lashing.</td></tr>
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Today, I'm working on slotted antler points with inset microblades. I made most of the microblades a few days ago and now I'm trimming and fitting them into the side slots on antler points. Two of these points will then be hafted onto arrows. </div>
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The microblades are all chert, with the exception of a few Texas flint blades. Despite having a couple hundred microblades to choose from, I'm starting to run low, so I think I'll return to the workshop tomorrow and knock off a few more. These reproductions are based on artifacts from Alaska. Microblades are found associated with the antler points, but I've been told that there aren't any in tact examples to get a sense of the arrangement of blades in the slot or adhesives that may have been used to secure them in place. Slotted points like this begin to appear during the Upper Palaeolithic and composite microlith tools spread around the globe. Some styles of slotted points or harpoon heads will have blades protruding like jagged barbs that look like shark's teeth with gaps between the microliths. However, the microblades found associated with this style of point seem to be prepared to create a continuous edge, so I'm trying to arrange the blades to create a leaf shaped blade, with a clean, sinuous cutting edge on each side of the point. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I avoided using mis-matched material types in the beginning, but once I started running low on suitable blades, I began mixing and matching. I kind of like the look. I think mis-matched stone gives the pieces a more random, real world look.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To create the initial fits and plan out the positioning of the blades, I worked with soaking wet antler. Water makes the antler soft and pliable enough that I can press the blades into the slots without crushing the thin, sharp edges.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So far, so good.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Microblades will have a platform and small bulb of percussion at the proximal end and curve, like the end of a ski at the distal end. To get the maximum, straight cutting edge, the distal and proximal end need to be trimmed off.</td></tr>
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<i>Photo Credits: Tim Rast</i>Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-2425944452112533732017-04-20T19:19:00.003-02:302017-04-20T19:19:58.350-02:30Alaska Archaeology Month - Shaft Smoother<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I'm working on a few shaft smoothers for Alaska Archaeology Month. These are sandstone abraders, that were likely used to sand arrow or dart shafts smooth. Based on analogies with such abraders that have been found elsewhere in North America, we are assuming that they were used in pairs. I'm working the abraders into shape and trying to antique them as I go along. At the moment, these preforms have the approximate shape roughed out, but I'm continuing to modify and antique them to match the reference artifacts. </div>
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So far, the biggest triumph has been finding a good source of sandstone. I know of roadcuts and quarries around St. John's where I can collect red or reddish purple sandstone, but I wanted something more neutral or buff coloured for these pieces. I wound up buying sheets of sandstone wall facade at Home Depot. In the past, I've had bad luck trying to use this sort of building material as a source of raw material. I have a box of very poor quality quartzite ledger stone that I picked up at one point hoping that I could knap it. It didn't work. However, this particular stone worked perfectly, it is a tough, gritty sandstone that is perfect for this particular project.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Each section of ledge stone has at least a 1/2 dozen good shaft smoother blanks in it. I intend to use the remaining sandstone as abrading stone for other projects. Later in May, I'll see how it works for grinding slate ulus.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The shallow groove in the middle is used to abrade dart or arrow shafts.</td></tr>
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<i> Photo Credits: Tim Rast</i>Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-37252634219705927252017-04-18T17:00:00.000-02:302017-04-18T17:00:43.289-02:30Crooked Knife<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I recently completed a set of reproductions based on artifacts from Newfoundland and Labrador for the Newfoundland and Labrador Archaeological Society. The NLAS is making an exhibit in a suitcase that contains reproductions and activities that can travel around and be used in places like schools to help interpret the Province's archaeological past. One of the tools in the kit is a crooked knife. The crooked knife is an historic tool that is still used today by Innu and Mi'kmaq in the Province. The reproduction that I made is generic enough that it might be at home on the Island or in Labrador, although I primarily used Innu tools as references. My main source was <a href="http://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/27475/?q=crooked+knife&page_num=1&item_num=16&media_irn=3036458">this one</a> in the collections of the Canadian Museum of History. </div>
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Crooked knives were made from re-purposed iron, especially iron files. I used a file to make this one. I broke an inch or so off of the end of the file, so that I'd have a 4-5" long blade. I sharpened it along one edge (and then dulled it again to make it safe to handle). A bit of heat and a hammer and anvil is enough to curve the tip. These are a type of draw knife and the crook in the handle is there to support your thumb as you draw the blade towards you. </div>
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The tang of the file/knife blade is fit into the wood handle by gouging out an open socket on one side of the handle. The way the blade is fit into the handle seems to be one of the slight variations in design between the knives made on the Island of Newfoundland and those made in Labrador. On the Island, the Mi'kmaq would fit the blade in a slot in the middle of the handle or the back edge rather than an open faced socket, like this one, which is modeled after an Innu example. A matching wooden plug is carved to close the socket and everything is then lashed securely in place. I used a cotton thread for this lashing. I've seen reference to rawhide being used here, but I haven't really come across any good ethnographic examples with rawhide. Rawhide makes good lashing, but on a handle like this, I could imagine the sweat from someone's hand making the binding rubbery and loose on a hot summer's day. I think something that doesn't expand of loosen with moisture would be more desirable.</div>
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Every April, Alaska celebrates <a href="https://www.alaskaanthropology.org/archaeology-month/">Archaeology Month</a>. This year, I'm making some artifact reproductions from the area, including some pieces that I've never attempted before, so I'm enjoying working on something new. The first pieces, are slotted antler points. The body of the points are antler, with long slots running the length of the sides. These side slots hold microblades, so the first step of the process is to make the microblades. <br />
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It always takes me a while to get into the rhythm of making microblades. Fortunately, I'll need a lot for this project (and other spring orders), so I was able to dedicate a couple days last week to practicing and building up an inventory. I tend to use soft hammer percussion or indirect percussion to produce the blades. <br />
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<i>Photo Credits: Tim Rast </i>Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11473674521424237610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086026991280831425.post-32731783246865249682017-04-05T16:33:00.001-02:302017-04-05T16:33:37.479-02:30Clovis Points<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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2017 has been a busy year so far and I've been a bit lax in keeping track of Elfshot projects on this blog. I was teaching the Lithic Analysis class at MUN, taking an evening class for interest's sake, working on a report from last summer's field work in Iqaluit, and trying to keep up with Elfshot orders. It all kept my attention divided and blog posts fell off my weekly to-do list. I'll try to share a backlog of photos and stories, starting with this look at a pair of Clovis points that I made earlier this year. </div>
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I find fluting points challenging and since I'm rarely asked to make them, there is always a bit of trial and error to get back into the groove of things. I have a half dozen failed points on my workshop floor, before I finished two that I was happy with. The white one is Keokuk chert and the black one is obsidian.</div>
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