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 red cedar paddle
Pigment
Cocheneal
(Dactylopius coccus) these bugs are the source of precious red color and thrive on Opuntia
Osage Orange bow
Maclura pommifera, osgae orange, hedge apple, bois d'arc, best wood for flat bows in North America.
Bullroarer
also made from osage orange , this Stone Age musical instrument was made by humans on all continents.
a much lighter version made from Douglas fir
Hadza axe
Hadza bows California bayleaf
Hadza axe
blade: forged steel from recycled broken crow bar
handle: Terminalia wood from Hadza land
Manual (foot) potters wheel built 40 years ago from recycled oak
First bowl thrown since we transported this wheel from Basel, Switzerland to San Diego, California.
Wheel was built with a friend following the Bernard Leach plans, St Ives, UK.