Yesterday was aboriginal day here in Canada and the local Algonquin office in a nearby town always has a show and tell gathering on a point alongside the Ottawa river, this gathering is mainly for the school kids. The kids are taken out of school and brought over by teachers and allowed to look and ask questions. My wife being a member of these Algonquins was asked if I would like to show some bows, arrows and knapping. We've been holed up for a couple years so we decided to take a chance and say yes.
The first kids to show up after setting up were the grade school kids and they were full of questions and were very "handsy". Fortunately my wife being a retired school teacher handled them fairly easily, me I'm a bit anti-social and was glaring at the kids
. Later on the high school kids started to come around. They were a bit more confrontational with some of them doubting that the bows could even be used for hunting. I told them that you could use any of these bows to hunt Deer, Bear or moose. I had this bow with me
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,68497.0.html and one of them wanted to know if that was a real snakeskin. I told them that it was in fact a rattlesnake skin. Then I told them that in fact it would be really good for hunting Moose because with the snakeskin it would be camouflaged and any moose seeing the bow would just think "oh it's just a snake in the bush". As soon as the words were out of my mouth I though....ooops. I turned to my wife and said " I guess I shouldn't say things like that". She turned to me and said "nope, probably shouldn't". The teachers in the background didn't say anything but everybody moved on shortly after
