Coner Tang question

[StevenT]

I am starting this as a new topic because I did not want to hijack Sasquatch's corner tang post. Over time, I have seen several corner tang posted. What I am wondering is how a corner tang is hafted or used?  I am thinking it is used as a blade (knife), but I can't picture it in my head. What type of handle is used? Does anyone have pics of a completed corner tang or how it is used? Thanks.

[Tower]

I think the tang was created to tie a lanyard to your wrist. The tang would be too weak to be hafted & used . I've used a cornertang with a  lanyard to skin a deer. I found that I could use both hands & if I needed the knife was always readily available .   Just my opinion.

[Sasquatch]

Tower's opinion make perfect sense to me also.   

[StevenT]

Thanks. That makes sense. Especially with the size of Sasquatch's corner tang. That is one awesome looking blade and I could see it being used as is.

[Stringman]

One I made several years ago.

[Chippintuff]

Scott, that is some fine knapping, and the stone is gorgeous.

WA

[Stringman]

I believe I got that piece from Tower, but it's been a few years. Took it to Colorado on an elk hunt and left it with our horse wranglers as a gift.

[Outbackbob48]

Did ya ever lay your knife down while butchering or gutting and now ya can't find it in the leaves, NA were smart enough to not loose there's in the leaves and could work with both hands  Made this one a long time ago, even has a Dogbane string. Bob

[Zuma]

I think the crew nailed it on the corner tang.  Although any notched or expanding stem knife will work also.
Zuma

[StevenT]

Zuma, I agree. My question was well answered. Sometimes pictures are worth the thousand words. Thanks to all.

[mullet]

Agree, I made one for Pappy a few years ago with a Spanish Bayonet fiber string.

[JackCrafty]

They were sometimes offered as burial gifts.  And I don't think they were worn around the neck.  Probably on the wrist (as already stated) or on a belt, as the picture below tends to show.

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/images/Silo-burial-2-90.html