Poplar bark cordadge fishnet

[swamp monkey]

Nice work there SY.  I figure you went about it the way all of our ancestors did at one point.  It was a community effort.  Thanks for sharing. 

SM

[swamp yeti]

Thanks Jodocus.That's right Swamp Monkey it was a community effort.When they made river wide fishnets everybody that could tie cordadge helped out.

[Buckeye Guy]

Very nice !!
Guy

[swamp yeti]

Thanks Guy.

[killir duck]

awesome, you need to go field test it.

[YosemiteBen]

will work at getting you the dogbane when I get back from VaKay!

[swamp yeti]

I am going to make another one killer duck and use it thanks.Soon as I get the dogbane the poplar bark is on the way Ben.

[JW_Halverson]

When you start figuring all the man-hours necessary to produce things like this, you start to understand that the idea of one person surviving alone in the wild is a fantasy.  It literally takes a village. 

Once again, I am amazed at the sacrifice and effort our ancestors made to feed themselves and their children.  Maybe that is why I like primitive archery so much, I want to reconnect with those common ancestors out of appreciation.

[swamp yeti]

That's right J.W.When I look at the drawings of native americans of John White of coastal N.C. at the site of the first failed colony in the new world you will see that everybody participated from hunting and fishing to planting crops.They all looked after one another maybe we should follow that example more today.

[Stoker]

That's a big project.. Very well done.. Amazing what can be done when you put your hands and heart together
Thanks Leroy

[Parnell]

I just saw this and I like that very much.  Lately been getting pretty good at using a cast net (store bought of course), but I am starting to really understand why people would have wanted to put so much time and effort into making one.  Nets feed people!

[swamp yeti]

Thanks Leroy.You are right Parnell nets would feed an entire village.

[richardzane]

nice work! twisting cordage is one thing... but nets!
up near the Georgian Bay my wendat ancestors made fish nets, and these were so important for survival that they had ceremonies
to "wed" a young woman to a net. Perhaps it was thought to make the net more responsible to provide, and more apt to catch more fish.

[swamp yeti]

You are right Richard fishing I think was just as important as hunting my ancestors the Powhatan also fished coastal Virginia for thousands of years.