Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: The Complete Guide to Making and Using Traditional Tools

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.

An illustrated guide to making Native American tools and weapons using time-honored methods.

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 lives in Missouri.