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Knapping with future lithic analyists
I had a good day with archaeology students at Memorial University of Newfoundland today. I spent the morning with Catherine Jalbert's lithic analysis class and ended the day with a student mixer where...
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Snowshoeing Father Troy's Trail
We had another perfect Saturday morning for hitting the trails on snowshoes this past weekend. This time we tackled a section of Father Troy's Trail on the East Cost Trail between Torbay and Flatrock....
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Recording artifacts to reproduce them
A quartzite projectile pointI'm starting work soon on a set of hafted reproductions based on artifacts from an Intermediate Period site in Sheshatshiu, Labrador. The site is being investigated by...
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Learn to Flintknap in Saskatoon this March!
I'll be in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in a few weeks for a weekend flintknapping workshop. I'm really looking forward to this. I love how organized the Saskatchewan Archaeological Society and...
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Snowshoeing White Hills
We had yet another perfect weekend for snowshoeing. We had 20 or 30 cm of fluffy fresh snow fall during the week and then ideal weekend weather for getting out and playing in it. This time we hit the...
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Tropical Fish Photos from Cuba
Its cold in St. John's this week. Being on the water we can expect lots of snow throughout the winter, but it doesn't often get terribly cold. Minus 40 doesn't really happen here, but this week feels...
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Bending the Dorset Drum Frames
A mostly bent frame and theoriginal drum patterns printedunderneath it.I hope my dislike for bending wood comes across clearly in this blog. I'm really bad at it. You might have wondered why I've...
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Continuing the Dorset Drums
This groove runs all the wayaround the drum and will beused to tie down the caribourawhide drum skin.I continued to work on the Dorset Palaeoeskimo drum frames today. I've cut the hoops to length,...
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Dorset Drums Assembled
Button Point drum reproductionsThe Dorset Palaeoeskimo drum reproductions are finished now, except for the drying and the drumsticks. I'm starting to get hints of what they might sound like, but the...
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Dorset Drums: A 1500 year old song?
Late Dorset drum reproductions fromthe Canadian ArcticI think that the Dorset Palaeoeskimo drum frames from Button Point may have the oldest pieces of written music in Canada etched into their frames....
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Snowshoeing Father Troy's Trail Part II
Sunday was a perfect morning for snowshoeing. We returned to Father Troy's Trail running between Flatrock and Torbay and did a section in the middle of the trail between Church Cove and Whale Cove....
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Researching the Beothuk Harpoon
Beothuk Harpoon Head, Mary March MuseumIn the workshop, I'm back to making sets of Beothuk and Intermediate period reproductions for various branches of the Provincial Museum and Provincial Historic...
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MUNArch Stone Tool Making Workshops 2014
Obsidian BifaceBeginning next week, MUNArch, the Memorial University of Newfoundland undergraduate archaeology society will be sponsoring three weeks of flintknapping and ground stone tool making...
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Spring 2014 Flintknapping Workshops in Edmonton
I'll be teaching a pair of flintknapping workshops in Edmonton on the weekend of March 15 and 16th at the University of Alberta. These workshops are generously sponsored and organized by the...
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March is going to be busy
An Open Minds workshop at The RoomsIt's kind of a hectic month. I still have a couple big orders to fill in the studio, but workshops and demonstrations have really piled up in my March schedule as...
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Beothuk Harpoon Head progress
Reproductions andphoto referencesThe Beothuk harpoon is coming together. I have all of the pieces on hand, I just need to do some finishing and assemble it. The harpoon head style is influenced by...
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Fitting the Beothuk Harpoon Head
Will it fit?I got as far as fitting the Beothuk harpoon head onto the wood mainshaft this weekend. If you recall, the Beothuk harpoon heads have a very thin slit at the base to fit onto the harpoon...
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MUNArch Percussion Workshop
We are at the halfway point in the MUNArch flintknapping wokrshops. Three of the six evenings have gone ahead and its been going great so far. Last week we made ground stone ulus and this week we are...
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Travel Day
Home for the next few days.It was a pretty long travel day today. I made it to Edmonton this afternoon in time to buy some supplies for the weekend workshop and get a long overdue haircut. My laptop...
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Edmonton Flintknapping Workshop Wrap-Up 2014
New and familiar facesWhat a workout! I'm recovering this morning from a very enjoyable weekend flintknapping and ground stone ulu making workshop in Edmonton. The workshop was sponsored by the...
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