Arrowhead Thread

Griff · 12-12-2011, 05:27 AM

Seriously cool!

glatt · 12-12-2011, 07:55 AM

I'm impressed too.

So how did the natives harvest sinew? I've eaten meat, obviously, but it's usually all cut up by the time I get it. Where's the sinew? In a chicken or turkey, you get some muscles that have a tendon attached where the muscle comes to a point. It that tendon the sinew? How do you get it into those thin strips? Do you remove it when raw and try to pull the fibers apart? Do you cook it first? Is there a particular place on the animal where you get the sinew? It it the achilles tendon? How much sinew is on an animal? Enough for a hundred arrows, or is it like you can make one or two arrows with one animal?

I see this arrow is made of bamboo, or some similar grass or reed type of plant. Is that just a modern guess at how you can make arrows, or is it based on archeological evidence? I'd guess that each tribe of indians had its own local natural resources that it used. There's no flint or obsidian in Arlington, but indians lived and hunted here. What did they use for their arrows?

12-12-2011, 05:27 AM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Seriously cool! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-12-2011, 07:55 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I'm impressed too. So how did the natives harvest sinew? I've eaten meat, obviously, but it's usually all cut up by the time I get it. Where's the sinew? In a chicken or turkey, you get some muscles that have a tendon attached where the muscle comes to a point. It that tendon the sinew? How do you get it into those thin strips? Do you remove it when raw and try to pull the fibers apart? Do you cook it first? Is there a particular place on the animal where you get the sinew? It it the achilles tendon? How much sinew is on an animal? Enough for a hundred arrows, or is it like you can make one or two arrows with one animal? I see this arrow is made of bamboo, or some similar grass or reed type of plant. Is that just a modern guess at how you can make arrows, or is it based on archeological evidence? I'd guess that each tribe of indians had its own local natural resources that it used. There's no flint or obsidian in Arlington, but indians lived and hunted here. What did they use for their arrows?

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