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Rick testing his replica buffalo
hide bullboat at Archeology Days at the
Prehistoric Indian
Village, Mitchell, S.D.
Click here for BCXII, 12th annual Beaver Creek Knap-In & Primitive Skills Gathering Information
Please note the new knap-in location at the Hamilton Buffalo Ranch
southwest of Stuart, Nebraska
Click here for map to ranch
location where knap-in is held
Click here for more Plant DVD info including pricing
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New!! 10 yrs in production! A 3 volume DVD set Nearly 100 plants Gives visual identification, Each volume has an easy Gives Latin, common, and |
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Approximately 3 1/2 hours in
length Many of the plants extend from Texas to Canada Useful for professional ethnobotanists, botanists, herbalists, as well as avocationals interested in plant identification and usage
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Click on the Nebraska Archaeology Society logo below to
link to their site. Some great info on artifacts, as well as membership to
the NAS. Membership to the NAS also includes membership to the Central States
Archaeological Society, which publishes the quarterly Central States
Archaeological Journal. Both are great organizations.
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Annual Nebraska Archaeological Society Show August 2012
Seward, Nebraska
click here for a poster and details
(We will be doing the flintknapping demo; hope to see you there)
About Us:
We at Spirit in the Wind are dedicated to the saving and re-discovery of some of the nearly extinct primitive skills technologies, such as brain-tanning, flintknapping, pottery, ethnobotany, and more. We endeavor to accomplish this task through experimental archaeology and painstaking research. We are available for consultations, commissioned museum and display replications, replications for experimental archaeology, and also educational presentations.
"First Nebraskans Living History Programs", are specially designed educational programs for school groups, youth organizations, camps, Lewis and Clark events, and other groups, which offer hands on living history implementing some of our hand made replicas from Nebraska's past, all of which are thoroughly researched to be historically accurate in every detail.
Families, individuals, and groups can experience a day in the life of the 1800's
Plains Indians, with actual hands-on
cultural learning classes, viewing and photographing our buffalo herd and other
wildlife, while staying in a replica Sioux tipi or our modern log sided cabin at
our pristine Sandhills ranch location. Learn to identify native plants and their
uses by the Plain's Native Americans. Contact us for details.
Individuals and groups may participate in one of our unique Native American Skills Workshops while utilizing hands-on training with natural materials from the earth to unlock the ancient secrets of the past. Some of the classes covered will include; flintknapping, overnight tipi stays, firemaking, tools and weapons, edible, herbal, and medicinal uses of plants, primitive pottery making, cordage making, and much more.
NEW !!
Firemaking short videos
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Abo Flintknapping Tutorials
by Rick Hamilton
Our flintknapping pictorials on abo flintknapping and abo reduction techniques are featured in several museums around the country
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Firemaking videos were recorded at the Third Sunday Archeology Program titled, "Primitive Technologies:Pathways to the Past", presented by Rick Hamilton at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D. Elapsed time to ember on bow drill was 14 seconds, and 37 seconds on the hand drill.
ORDER INFORMATION
A great new book by Bob Patten, one of the top abo
flintknappers in the country. Click on the order form to
be directed to Bob's site for ordering info. Bob has done educational knapping
presentations for me at our annual Beaver Creek Knap-In & Primitive Skills
Gathering for the past eight years, and has been a guiding force in my quest to
unlock the secrets of the ancients.
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Award winning limited edition nature & wildlife photo gallery with prints for sale |
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A replica Lakota parfleche bag. Click on pic to view our photo gallery of some of our Native American reproductions |
A replica
Central Plains cord-paddle pot . Click on pic to view a photo gallery of
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Wilderness Weekend Getaway |
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Japanese Hide Tanning Videos - Translations |
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Spirit in the Wind Flintknapping Gallery |
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"Abo Knappers" |
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"For every part
of the past that is lost; there is a piece of the
future that will never be attained."
(@rnh 09/08/96)
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