About this Book

Fire : hand drill method ; bow drill method -- Rope, string, thread : vegetable fibers ; animal fibers ; spinning fibers ; making cord ; lacings ; braiding ; netting ; shopping bag ; card weaving -- Tools : fire as a tool ; sanders and polishers ; hammer ; sharp edges : flintnapping ; hafting ; planers ; knife ; wedges and clamps ; drills ; wooden mallett ; awls ; blow tube ; pottery tools ; shuttles ; leather tanning tools ; fleshing and dehairing scraper ; modified clamp scraper ; metal bladed hide scraper ; how to sharpen a chopper edge ; 90 degree rule ; making flake tools ; drill bit -- Color : earth pigments ; charcoal as black paint ; pigment base ; plant pigments ; making stains from fruit ; natural dyes ; larkspur ; Indian paintbrush ; alder trees ; bee plant ; juniper ; black walnut ; soil pigments -- Baskets, buckets, and bowls : gourd bottom bag ; log bowl ; bark bucket ; willow twine basket -- Pottery : pinch pots ; coil pots ; slab pots ; firing pottery -- Food and cooking : jerked venison stew ; dried apples and plum jam pie ; puff bread ; acorn muffins ; fresh apple and dried cherry pie ; dandlion root tea ; pumpkin soup ; cattail pollen and deer fat bisquits ; smoked elk sausages ; pine needle tea ; acorn fritters ; drying apples ; drying cherries ; plum jam ; crabapple jelly ; how to jerk meat ; how to render fat ; how to smoke sausage -- Soap : bouncing bet ; clematis ; yucca ; agave ; Spanish bayonet ; Joshua tree ; how to make soap -- Animals : skinning the animal ; scraping the hide ; tanning ; brain tanning ; smoking furs ; making rawhide and buckskin ; glue ; pitch glue ; hide glue ; fish skin glue -- Music : stick percussion instrument ; rainstick ; stick rattle ; rawhide rattle ; tambourine ; drum ; log frame drum ; hoop frame drum ; flute -- Clothing : sun visor ; leather clothing ; fur hat ; no pattern buckskin shirt ; no pattern skirt ; making buttons ; oblong buttons ; buttons from bone and shell ; rolled leather buttons ; boot moccasins.