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The Year in Photos
Google+ made this little film from images that appeared on this blog over the past year. I enjoyed it.
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Pondering Drums Again
Dorset Palaeoeskimo drums were a recurring theme for me over the past year and that theme will continue into 2015. Chris Wolff and I plan to present our research at the Canadian Archaeology...
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all you animals out partying like its naught-naught-seventy-nine!Photo Credits: Tim Rast(A scene from a wall in Pompeii)
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Big Fluffy Flakes
Here's hoping that the first weekend of the New Year will be the first snowshoeing weekend of the New Year! Photo Credit: Tim Rast
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Side-Hafting microblades
The microblades, edge on.I'm back in the workshop this week and returning to the set of Dorset Palaeoeskimo reproductions for the Parks Canada interpreters to use at Port au Choix. Here's a look at a...
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It's winter here
The view towards the St. John's narrows from Deadman's Bay, last weekend.Photo Credit: Tim Rast
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Experimenting with Dorset Palaeoeskimo Tools
Scraping the spurs on a harpoon headI got some exciting news today - a project and paper that I was involved with was just published. It's based on some experiments that I did with Patty Wells for her...
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Ready to Assemble
Lots of fiddly little pieces tokeep straightI need to twist some sinew into threads and then lash the stone, wood, bone, and antler pieces together to finish the Dorset Palaeoeskimo set of...
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Port au Choix Dorset Palaeoeskimo Reproductions
Artifact reproductions of Middle Dorset Palaeoeskimo cutting, scraping, and carving toolsThe set of Dorset Palaeoeskimo hafted stone tools is ready to send to it's new home at Port au Choix National...
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Ulu kits for students
During the last half of this week I've switched my focus to education, especially hands-on learning. I helped facilitate a ground stone tool making workshop at The Rooms yesterday, where I took this...
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Snowshoeing
We got out for a quick snowshoe trip around Beaver Pond in Shea Heights this weekend. This was the first trip of the season where it really felt like snowshoes and poles were a necessity. Photo...
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Don Locke, 1938-2015
Gerald Penney’s Obituary for Don Locke, 20 January 2015.Don Locke, Newfoundland’s premier amateur archaeologist, died at his home town of Grand Falls, on 14 January, 2015 in his 76th year. Known to...
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A half dozen bow drills
Combo #84: Wood bow, modified iron nail drill bit, and antler socketI just finished up a set of 216 bow drills for the Nunatsiavut archaeologists to use in school programs in northern Labrador. Ok,...
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Silver Head Mine Path Boil-Up
Saturday turned out to be the best day this weekend for snowshoeing the East Coast Trail. A friend and I headed out for a few hours along the Silver Head Mine Path running north towards Torbay from...
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Blanks
Wholesale jewellery orders were once the biggest part of Elfshot's business, but over the years the one-of-a-kind museum reproductions and workshop instruction have taken on bigger roles. It's not...
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More Photos of Knapped Stone Points
Stack them up like Shark's TeethThis is my 935th blog post. That's not a particularly significant milestone, but it is a pretty big number. I've been blogging every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for...
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Assembling Jewellery
Pairs of Recent Indian ArrowheadsI've moved on to assembling the knapped points that I showed on Friday into necklaces and earrings. I needed to make a few more small points in order to make enough...
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Bone and chert pins
Bone hair pins and chert figurinesRounding out the jewellery order that I've been working on are two pairs of pins; one pair made from bone and the other made from chert. The bone pins are...
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Reproducing Artifacts for the Ikaahuk Archaeology Project
Pre-Dorset Harpoon HeadI'm starting work on an exciting new commission for the Ikaahuk Archaeology Project. The artifacts are permanently stored at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in...
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