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Field Course back ground Information
Tools & Technology
Bow drill
friction fire
Madrone (Arbutus menziesii) drill on madrone base
Friction Fire with
yucca sticks
(Yucca filamentosa)
Origin: American Southwest

Pottery
Mount Soledad clay
punch bowl decorated with rope made from New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax)
fully dried, and example of cup made from the same clay after it was fired in an open fire.












Flint knapping
Oldowan Rock breaking


Honey harvest in PB
(my hive)
Rope, Cordage
Yucca fiber bracelets
(Yucca filamentosa)

New Zealand Flax
cordage
(Phormium tenax)


Coconut
sennet
Palm Leaf
New Zealand flax
New Zealand flax
Palm leaf raffia
(Washingtonia robusta)


Red Cedar paddle
Locating red cedar log in river Olympic Peninsula, WA

splitting the log with an axe and stone hammer,
carrying the blank home



carving the paddle


finished paddle
Pigment

Cocheneal
(Dactylopius coccus) these bugs are the source of precious red color and thrive on Opuntia




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