Arrow Making

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top Left: Antler flaking tools called “Drifts” that were used to take small precise flakes off of the edges of projectile points, scrapers and knives.

 

Top Right: This chert core was used as a platform to chip thin uniform flakes that could then be shaped into tools.

 

Lower Left: Glacial flint nodule from which chips were struck to be made into tools. Since flint was not found locally and the nodules are often small, only crude tools were usually made.

 

Bottom Center: These are hammer stones. The one on the top shows signs of being use as an anvil (small pock marks in center). The lower picture is a front and back view of a river cobble flint knapping tool, used for percussion flaking (note the pock marks at the pointed ends).  When this was originally found in 1967 it was considered a problematical artifact, however Na Cee’Ne’e learned the art of flint knapping as part of a class project at Northern Kentucky University in 1974 and has since fashioned a similar knapping tool over the years from a river cobble.

 

Bottom Left: Flint projectile point (arrow) and a flint hafted scraper (originally a projectile point that broke and was reworked).

 

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