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Ancient Harpoons of Nunavut provides areference illustration, the size range, andthe most common material types for themost common harpoon heads found in theCanadian Arctic.I started a fun new order...

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Flintknapping Workshop, May 27 & 28, Port au Choix, NL

Please join me at Port au Choix National Historic site for a two day Flintknapping Workshop on May 27 and 28th.  Parks Canada is sponsoring this event and it is FREE to anyone over the age of 16, with...

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Port au Choix Workshop and Deliveries

Dorset seal processing tools from Port au ChoixPreparation for this weekend's workshop in Port au Choix is well under way.  I have a radio interview this morning and I'll be packing the car today with...

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King's Point Pottery

Fibre Optic JewelleryWe stopped at King's Point Pottery on the way to Port au Choix for this weekend's flintknapping workshop to delivery an order of colourful fibre optic knapped jewellery.  King's...

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Dorset and Thule Harpoon Head Update

Seven Dorset Harpoon Head reproductions.They aren't all finished yet. I'm slowly wrapping up a set of 14 arctic harpoon head reproductions.  This is the most complete set of Dorset and Thule harpoon...

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Harpoon Heads for Nunavik Sivunitsavut

Nearly 3000 years of Arctic Harpoon Head evolutionI shipped a large order of harpoon heads and Dorset and Thule artifact reproductions to Nunavik Sivunitsavut, an Inuit post secondary school in Quebec....

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Provincial Historic Sites Reproductions and Games

Red Ochre stained Beothukknife reproductionLast week, I delivered an order of artifact reproductions and games to the folks at Provincial Historic Sites to use in interpretive programming.  One set was...

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Onondaga Points for The Canadian Museum of History

Knapped arrowheadsAs is often the case, I had a flurry of potential customers contact me early in the summer just as I was heading out the door for a summer of arctic fieldwork.  Thankfully, everyone...

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Reproductions for Qalipu First Nation

Waltes game and crooked knifeEarlier this week, I completed work on a few different artifact reproductions, tools, and games for the Qalipu First Nation. Some of the pieces, like this waltes set and...

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Dorset Bear Heads

A family of four Dorset Palaeoeskimo polarbear pendant reproductionsI had a couple requests this summer for reproductions of Dorset Palaeoeskimo walrus ivory polar bear head pendants.  I finally...

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Beothuk Gaming Pieces

Beothuk game piece reproductionsLate last year, I worked on a set of bone Beothuk Game Piece reproductions.  They were a birthday present ordered by a friend for her archaeologist husband.  I made 13...

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Bone and Antler Games for the Canadian Museum of History

 These Bilboquets or pin and cup games are on their way to join the Canadian Museum of History's travelling Kids Celebrate exhibition.  The pins are all antler and the cups are either long bone...

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Repairs for The Rooms

Earlier this winter I completed a few repairs and replacement pieces of toys and games used in programming at The Rooms.  These pieces included replacement counting sticks and dice for waltes games,...

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PalaeoIndian Reproductions

A foreshaft assembly with a Folsom point based on a theoretical reconstructionI'm still around.  Although you might not realize that if you follow this blog.  I've been plugging away in the studio on...

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Stocking The Rooms in time for Christmas!

I'm just back from dropping off a big Christmas restocking order for The Rooms Gift Shop here in St. John's.  The order included a few flintknapping kits and a selection of handmade reproductions of...

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Maritime Archaic Reproductions for Port au Choix

Bird headed pins made from caribou long bonesand needles made from bird bones and caribou ribs.This is a set of reproductions that I recently completed for Port au Choix National Historic Site on...

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Groswater and Beothuk Artifact Reproductions

Reproduction BeothukArtifactsI dropped off two sets of Newfoundland and Labrador artifact reproductions to Memorial University of Newfoundland's Archaeology Department this morning.  One set is Beothuk...

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