Dans les coulisses - Behind the scene

Un regard dans les coulisses de Technologies Autochtones et de la reproduction d'artéfacts - A look behind the scene of Aboriginal Technologies and artifact reproduction

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Démonstration de l'utilisation d'une herminette

a person holding onto a branch with leaves on it

Future hampe de flèche

a pile of shredded white yarn sitting on top of a wooden floor

Coconut Flakes

Nouvelle fournée de tendon d'orignal préparé

an overhead view of a wooden floor with a boat shaped object on it's side

Arch

L'arc en érable avance, il ne reste plus qu'à finir la calibration

Différence de taille entre un os d'orignal et un os de cerf

L'arc en érable avance!

Il plie maintenant assez pour éliminer la courbe, il reste encore beaucoup de travail à faire.

Démarrage d'un nouvel arc

a hand is holding a piece of wood near a tree

Récolte d'écorce de cerisier

Le cerisier était cassé et n'aurait pas survécu la saison. L'écorce est trop petite pour faire des contenants, mais sera parfaite pour des maquettes

a man sitting on the floor working with wood

Sculpture

Sculpture de perche de harpon

two pictures one with white and the other has brown sprinkles in it

Processing milkweed silk

It's -17°C today. Perfect day to experiment with processing milkweed silk, one of the best natural insulation materials. Its volatile nature makes it difficult to handle but Eliane is figuring out some very effective techniques to extract, clean and bundle the fibres in a single take. This lot will go into a pair of mittens.

two pictures, one with a piece of wood and the other with an object in it

Flintknapping initiation

Marie's flintknapping initiation with low grade Onondaga chert. The objective was learning the basics of percussion to produce usable flakes. In just a couple of hours she learned hammer stone spalling, antler direct/indirect percussion and pressure flaking. She even completed a hafted hide scraper. Not bad for one afternoon. An impressive learning curve on very tough material. Now it's all down to practice!

the fire is burning and there are four cookies in front of it that look like they have been made out of clay

Experiment firing pottery fragments in a fireplace (can't fire it outside in winter!)

How do you fire pottery in mid-winter? I mean the prehistoric way! Well, Marie came up with a plan to get it done while enjoying home comforts. I had my doubts about the efficiency of an indoor fireplace for that purpose but it worked sufficiently well for these potsherd reproductions. I guess the heat refraction compensated for the limited output. A successful low heat firing giving us more clues about ancient pottery.

a person is holding a rock in their hand and it looks like they are making something out of clay

Percussion et bouchardage de pierre pour une préforme de hache.

Removing scales and skinning a fish using semi-lunar slate knives

Today, Marie prepared lunch the prehistoric way using semi-lunar slate knives. Such knives have been used for thousands of years in North America from the Pacific to the Atlantic and across the Arctic. The Inuit used them for a variety of tasks but early designs from the Laurentian Archaic tradition can be interpreted as fish knives based on those of the Pacific coast. The edge is extremely sharp but quite brittle so they are best suited to process soft flesh and thin skin.

a person sitting on the floor with a knife in their hand and some brown stuff around them

Grinding tinder fungus (for fire starting kits)

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