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Primitive Technology, Traditional Skills, and Hand-Made Tools RESOURCES | WORKSHOPS | FIRE | TOOLS | MUSIC | SKILLS | PLANTS | EVENTS | URBAN | GALLERY The PrimitiveWays™ CD The PrimitiveWays™ Book What's New Calendar of Activities & Events: October Photo Gallery 21 Photo Gallery 22 Wilderness Grooming Thumb Loop Hand Drill Fire Kit Become a Member of the Society of Primitive Technology http://www.primitiveways.com/ (1 of 9) [10/22/2003 5:38:17 PM] Primitive Technology, Traditional Skills, and Hand-Made Tools Resources E-mail Questions Answered (new additions weekly) The PrimitiveWays™ CD The PrimitiveWays™ Book Recommended Books & Magazines Movies of Interest (Entertainment, Educational, and How-To videos) Stores that Offer Resources for Primitive Technology Projects TRADING POST - items for sale A $5 Friction Fire Starter Kit Thumb Loop Hand Drill Fire Kit Workshops & Classes Calendar of Activities & Events - 2003 Old Ways Workshops - 2003 KAHIKO Workshops of Native Skills - 2003 MAPOM Fall Classes - 2003 What to Teach Kids and Why Sharing Old Ways With The Young http://www.primitiveways.com/ (2 of 9) [10/22/2003 5:38:17 PM] Primitive Technology, Traditional Skills, and Hand-Made Tools Fire Making & Primitive Cooking Some Uses of Fire Starting Fire With a Lens Made From Ice! The Egyptian Bow Drill Fire-By-Friction: Materials of the San Francisco Bay Region Fire The Two-Stick Hearthboard Miracle of Fire-by-Friction Making Fire with a Bow Drill Making Fire with a Hand Drill Fire-by-Friction with Damp Materials Spindle Extension for a Fire Bow Drill Fire-by-Friction Methods of the Australian Aborigines Smallest Bow Drill Fire-by- Friction Set Primitive Cooking Adobe Horno Bamboo Rice Cooker http://www.primitiveways.com/ (3 of 9) [10/22/2003 5:38:17 PM] Primitive Technology, Traditional Skills, and Hand-Made Tools Primitive Tools & Projectiles The Secrets of the Sinew Cordage Backed Bow Making an Asiatic Composite Bow Making a Bow From a Sapling Fletching By Hand Arrow Straightening Making an Atlatl from a Branch Jiffy Arrow & Atlatl Dart Fletch Using Duct Tape Atlatl Dart Tuning Atlatl Flexibility Analysis Simple Atlatl Spear Thrower Construction Atlatl in Ancient Rock Art Bamboo Clay Thrower Spears, Weirs and Traps The Hoko Knife - A quick, simple stone tool The Stone Saw The Scapular Saw Antler Handle Knife Scallop Baking Shells http://www.primitiveways.com/ (4 of 9) [10/22/2003 5:38:17 PM] Primitive Technology, Traditional Skills, and Hand-Made Tools Musical Instruments & Magic Bone Flutes Primitive Quail Call Primitive Hand Made Reed Flute Sycamore Membranophone Puniu - Hawaiian Knee Drum Deer Hoof Rattle Musical Instruments of Central California Random Thoughts on Tradition vs. Technology Primitive Crystal Light! Weaving a Lauhala Mat Processing Shark Skin into Rawhide Brain Tanned Buffalo Hides Tanning a Fox Hide Pelt Bag The Ties that Bind and Bindings that Tie What Knot to Use in a Primitive Situation Pomo Netting Cordage Fiber Shredder Made From Bone Making Cordage By Hand http://www.primitiveways.com/ (5 of 9) [10/22/2003 5:38:17 PM] Primitive Technology, Traditional Skills, and Hand-Made Tools Early Technology & Traditional Skills Introduction To Tule Ethnobotany Pomo Tule Bittern Klamath Twined Tule Visor Paiute Tule Duck Decoy Ajumawi Fish Traps Inuit Thimble Willow Rake The Three-Stick Roycroft Pack Frame Making a Leather Knife Sheath Steam Bending Wood Log Ladder Four Hour Kayak How to Paint a Mammoth Wilderness Grooming Thirty Years in the Jungle! Was Agriculture a Good Idea, or an Act of Desperation? Calendar of Harvesting and Gathering Coppicing Useful Plants of California (1) Useful Plants of California (2) Useful Plants of California (3) http://www.primitiveways.com/ (6 of 9) [10/22/2003 5:38:17 PM] Primitive Technology, Traditional Skills, and Hand-Made Tools Useful Plants & Shelters Nature's General Store: The Yuccas and Agaves The Ti Plant Called Ki Olona Hemp Dogbane Hawaiian Plants (a trip to the Big Island) Bull Whip Kelp Fishing with Poisons Fishing with Hawaiian Plants Cattail Pollen Pancakes Quiz: Can You Name These Plants? Thatched Ohlone Style House Scout Pit The Primitive Sauna Events & Primitive Trips I Belong To This Country (an Australian adventure) Native California Fall Gathering at San Luis Reservoir State Recreation Area Rattlesnake Rendezvous Australian Aborigine Flint Knapping Primitive Field Day at Stanford University http://www.primitiveways.com/ (7 of 9) [10/22/2003 5:38:17 PM] Primitive Technology, Traditional Skills, and Hand-Made Tools Coyote Hills Knap-In and The Gathering of Ohlone People Winter Count Hand-Made Tools & Urban Resources How to Make Your Own Steel Knives Folding Saw Johnstone Tools Portable Shaving Horse Urban Resources Alternative Supplies for Urban Dwellers Wilderness & Urban Tips Fire by Chemical Reaction Gallery & Links Photo Gallery I Photo Gallery II The Info Super Highway Refugee Interesting Links RESOURCES | WORKSHOPS | FIRE | TOOLS | MUSIC | SKILLS | PLANTS | EVENTS | URBAN | GALLERY PrimitiveWays began in 1998 and is produced by Dick Baugh, Bob Gillis, Norm Kidder, Chuck Kritzon, Ken Peek, and Dino Labiste. The excerpts by Steve Watts (President of the Society of Primitive Technology) http://www.primitiveways.com/ (8 of 9) [10/22/2003 5:38:17 PM] Primitive Technology, Traditional Skills, and Hand-Made Tools summarizes our philosophy on practicing and teaching primitive technology. E-mail your comments to "Dino Labiste" at