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Hafting a plains indian war club.
stickbender:
--- Quote from: ck3282 on March 12, 2014, 02:55:02 pm ---My grandpa told me that years ago that natives around here would stick the stone head in between a fork on a live tree, bind it, and let it grow around the head. Not an expediant method but effective nonetheless.
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I have read in books, the same thing, that they would find a suitable limb and cut a hole just big enough to fit the axe, or whatever type of head they wanted, into it. The the tree would heal around it. I don't know if they put any mud, or other material around the limb to keep it moist, and keep insects out.
Wayne
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