Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: swamp yeti on November 09, 2013, 09:55:45 pm
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Took on a huge undertaking for the museum and archives of Rockingham co.N.C.In three weekends twelve people including myself,my wife and museum curator tied total of 200 ft. of poplar bark cordage.Then on the last day we tied a net seven ft. long and five ft. wide with seven soapstone sinkers including one my wife carved into a turtle effigy.
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Very Cool! 8)
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Awesome!
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Very nice, Thats another skill that I want to gain. the knowledge of net making a skill that is worth its weight in gold.
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Nice work Yeti. And I thought bow building took patience! ;D
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Thanks for the compliments everybody.
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Man, that is cool and a lot of work.
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Very Cool! 8)
looks like the nets we make from dog bane.
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Thanks Mullet.I was going to use dogbane Ben but before I could get to it they had bush hogged it so I had to go back to the woods and found three poplar trees where the bark retted I was lucky.
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that's a lot of work but it sure paid off.nice net
Roger
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awesome job. I have always wanted to make one!
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Thanks Roger and twistedlimbs.
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Very nice work Yeti, sweet and I know had to be a lot of work. Love the turtle also. :) :)
Pappy
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Thanks Pappy.
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Wonderful!
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Nice work there SY. I figure you went about it the way all of our ancestors did at one point. It was a community effort. Thanks for sharing.
SM
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Thanks Jodocus.That's right Swamp Monkey it was a community effort.When they made river wide fishnets everybody that could tie cordadge helped out.
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Very nice !!
Guy
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Thanks Guy.
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awesome, you need to go field test it.
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will work at getting you the dogbane when I get back from VaKay!
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I am going to make another one killer duck and use it thanks.Soon as I get the dogbane the poplar bark is on the way Ben.
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When you start figuring all the man-hours necessary to produce things like this, you start to understand that the idea of one person surviving alone in the wild is a fantasy. It literally takes a village.
Once again, I am amazed at the sacrifice and effort our ancestors made to feed themselves and their children. Maybe that is why I like primitive archery so much, I want to reconnect with those common ancestors out of appreciation.
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That's right J.W.When I look at the drawings of native americans of John White of coastal N.C. at the site of the first failed colony in the new world you will see that everybody participated from hunting and fishing to planting crops.They all looked after one another maybe we should follow that example more today.
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That's a big project.. Very well done.. Amazing what can be done when you put your hands and heart together
Thanks Leroy
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I just saw this and I like that very much. Lately been getting pretty good at using a cast net (store bought of course), but I am starting to really understand why people would have wanted to put so much time and effort into making one. Nets feed people!
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Thanks Leroy.You are right Parnell nets would feed an entire village.
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nice work! twisting cordage is one thing... but nets!
up near the Georgian Bay my wendat ancestors made fish nets, and these were so important for survival that they had ceremonies
to "wed" a young woman to a net. Perhaps it was thought to make the net more responsible to provide, and more apt to catch more fish.
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You are right Richard fishing I think was just as important as hunting my ancestors the Powhatan also fished coastal Virginia for thousands of years.