Ishi's Knapping Techniques
I read about Ishi's arrowhead making methods in Ishi the Last Yahi. It states how he broke off flakes and turned them into arrowheads. After I read it, I noticed that nothing about abrading or...
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i'm not sure you could make anythin like an "ishi" point without abrading... Michael
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I know Ishi used a nail, but I found this in Survival Skills of Native California about Wintun abrading: "Invariably when a line of these chips had been broken out the sharp edge was rubbed down, the...
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That sounds like Steve Buhrnes does it. He calls the method quadrifacial extrusion using the continious alternating platform technque. Yep that is what he calls it. He is a master knapper that you...
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Hey,I know this doesn't help but I took a look at the book [i]Yahi archery[/i] by Saxton Pope (1916) that is downlodable in:tinyurl.com/2fvmzhand Kroeber's (1961) book [i]Ishi in two worlds[/i] and...
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My guess is that he used the side of the nail pressure flaker to abrade the edge a small amount before each set of new flakes. I have a cast of an Ishi point and it has nice clean flaking. It would...
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After reading the descriptions from the books yesterday I started to wonder whether this passage in Holmes (originally by Nelson) could be a clue on how he did it: "...we may note the fact...that the...
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