How Do You Make Replica Arrowheads & Indian Tools?
Indians relied on their tracking, hunting, and tool-making skills to provide meat for their families. These tools included bows, arrows, and fishing spears. By understanding how these tools were made, educators, archaeologists, and museum staff gain greater insight into Indian culture, lifestyles, and skills development. With some effort and attention to details these scholars, plus modern re-enactors, primitive skills enthusiasts, and prehistory buffs, can create their own versions of these tools. Select material for arrowhead. Choose rock that is hard yet flakes easily, such as flint, jasper, or obsidian, or opt for animal bone. Author Allan A. MacFarlan in his book “Living Like Indians” recommends that crafters make arrowheads out of glass only if experienced. Select object for chipping tool, such as piece of bone, tip of deer antler, or small hard stone. Make arrowhead. Put arrowhead material on hard, flat surface and place chipping tool at an angle against material. Use large ston
