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    Native American Blowguns
    Native American Blowguns
    Native American Blowguns
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    Native American Blowguns

    By TBD

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDROPSToNE Press LLC
    Release dateMay 17, 2021
    ISBN9781947281394
    Native American Blowguns
    Author

    TBD

    Patsy Stanley is an artist, illustrator and author and a mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She has authored both nonfiction and fiction books including novels, children's books, energy books, art books, and more. She can reached at:patsystanley123@gmail.com for questions and comments.

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      Native American Blowguns - TBD

      Introduction

      I was eleven years old in the summer of 1978. That’s when I made my first blowgun. It was a simple design made from a cardboard wrapping paper tube. For the darts, I used cones of paper with pins in the tips. It wasn’t long before darts were stuck everywhere—targets, trees, and even my bedroom wall! The instructions for building the blowgun came from the comic book, Tarzan’s Jungle Annual #3 (1954). Under inspiration, I made countless darts and painted my tube blowgun with bright colors to resemble a real African blowgun.

      My fascination with blowguns was reinforced by television and movies. We have all seen Tarzan and other jungle movies with blowguns and poison darts. Who can forget the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) when Indiana Jones escaped the Hovito Indians who were using blowguns and bows and arrows? Even at that point in my young life, I knew about curare and poison dart frogs!

      Growing up in the Midwest, I encountered few Native Americans. I was naïve and thought all the Indians lived on reservations out west. That idea changed when I moved to North Carolina in 1982. When I first visited the reservation at Cherokee, NC, I learned that the Native Americans all over the Southeastern United States used river cane blowguns and darts. I saw examples in the Museum of the Cherokee Indian and actual Cherokees making darts at the Oconaluftee Indian Village. I left Cherokee with a blowgun, a handful of darts, and the yearning to learn how to make these primitive weapons. Within a month, all the darts were either lost or shot so many times they didn’t work anymore. My interest in blowguns never faded.

      In college, I studied Native Americans through anthropology courses and discovered the work of early ethnographers. Some of these ethnographers, such as Frank Speck, recorded valuable information about blowguns. Although the information was priceless, it was lacking in how-tos. Most articles mentioned reaming or burning out the cane blowguns, but little attention was given to the darts. There are lots of pictures of early darts but no directions for constructing them.

      During a Southeastern Native American course field trip in college, I visited the Schiele Museum in Gastonia and toured their replicated Catawba Village. It was there that I met Steve Watts for the first time. Steve gave the tours, but he also made several of the houses in the village. During that tour, Steve flint knapped an arrowhead, made a bow drill fire, and he even shot a blowgun dart over my head! I found out Steve taught classes, and I was instantly hooked!

      Since the late 1980’s, I have studied Primitive Technology and discovered many like-minded individuals who are interested in the how-tos of aboriginal life. There are many primitive how-to books available, but the blowgun of the Southeastern United States has received little attention. I have combined all the sources I could find about blowguns and added my personal experience and research to write the first complete book about Southeastern river cane blowguns.

      In the following pages I will be exploring the blowguns used by Native Americans in the Southeastern United States. I’ll discuss possible origins, breakdown the differences in blowguns between various Native American tribes, discuss possible aboriginal manufacturing techniques, and attempt to systematically explain how to make a blowgun and darts. I am drawing on approximately twenty-eight years of experience and research. I draw upon techniques seen from Cherokee, Catawba, and Choctaw blowgun makers. I have successfully taught thousands of people how to tie darts and will draw from that experience as well. I have been disappointed by some how-to books in the past, because they leave out critical steps in the construction process. I have attempted to include an exhaustive list of all the steps for blowgun and dart construction. I have also brought these steps to life through high-resolution photography. Any skill takes time to develop. Hopefully, this book will benefit the reader and shorten the time it takes them to learn this

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