Post by beaudro on Feb 4, 2008 20:00:25 GMT -5
I'm posting this here because it really didn't fit into knife throwing or sheaths,, but it has to do with the knife.
I had researched alot about knives in the last few years, and if you realize that our ancestors used them as tools and practically survived because of them it becomes important to keep one sharp. It isn't every day that we butcher a buffalo, but it was for very many in history.
here's is a quote out of Ruxtons Wild life in the rockies,
"Round the waist is a belt, in which is stuck a large butcher-knife in a sheath of buffalo-hide, made fast to the belt by a chain or guard of steel; which also supports a little buckskin case containing a whetstone. "
Here is another quote from Zena's leonards journals.
" On our passage across,(Yellow Stone ) we found several pieces of petrified wood, one of which was six or eight feet long - which our men divided amongst themselves, for the purpose of making whet-stones." ,
Very interesting when you read the whole story , they went way out of their way to find those stones , because keeping a knife sharp was so important. Otherwise the knife was just about useless, a trapper had to do his job skinning,
I have a few stones that come from Arkansas, the famous Arkansas stone was just about traded all over the country, indians would paddle them up river in boat loads and trade as far as Canada. It's still the same great stone today that it always has been.
I had researched alot about knives in the last few years, and if you realize that our ancestors used them as tools and practically survived because of them it becomes important to keep one sharp. It isn't every day that we butcher a buffalo, but it was for very many in history.
here's is a quote out of Ruxtons Wild life in the rockies,
"Round the waist is a belt, in which is stuck a large butcher-knife in a sheath of buffalo-hide, made fast to the belt by a chain or guard of steel; which also supports a little buckskin case containing a whetstone. "
Here is another quote from Zena's leonards journals.
" On our passage across,(Yellow Stone ) we found several pieces of petrified wood, one of which was six or eight feet long - which our men divided amongst themselves, for the purpose of making whet-stones." ,
Very interesting when you read the whole story , they went way out of their way to find those stones , because keeping a knife sharp was so important. Otherwise the knife was just about useless, a trapper had to do his job skinning,
I have a few stones that come from Arkansas, the famous Arkansas stone was just about traded all over the country, indians would paddle them up river in boat loads and trade as far as Canada. It's still the same great stone today that it always has been.