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Origin of the Duci'ne

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AncientTech:
"The Duci'ne originated from a boy of evil disposition who killed people. His mother was an Indian woman, and his father unknown.  When just a tiny boy, he made arrows. As he grew up, he made the arrows larger and put stone heads on them. He shot first at marks, and then at small animals, such as mice. Later he shot larger animals, and finally a dog. His mother thrashed him for this. After this he made stronger arrows. One day he was playing a shooting-game with other boys, and shot one of them.

The people were angry, and blamed the mother for not correcting him and for allowing him to behave badly. The boy ran away, and his mother followed him.  She held out her breasts to him, and entreated him to come back, saying, "Come, here are your breasts! " He shot her through the breasts. He became completely wild now, and never returned to the people.

He went to the mountains where obsidian is abundant, and made many arrow-heads. Whenever he made one which did not suit him, he threw it away. He spent all his spare time making arrow and spear heads. All the unfinished arrow and spear heads found here and
there scattered over the country were made by him. They are the "heads" he discarded in his travels around the country and when hunting. He used no flakers of any kind. He flaked the arrow-heads with the palms of his hands, which were of bone."

(THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLK-LORE, VOL. 34.--OCTOBER-DECEMBER, 1921.--No. 134. 'TAHLTAN TALES.'  BY JAMES A. TEIT.)

nclonghunter:
Where are the pictures?  :D

mullet:
nc, you took the bait. ::) :'(

AncientTech:

--- Quote from: mullet on August 11, 2015, 09:51:59 pm ---nc, you took the bait. ::) :'(

--- End quote ---

"Took the bait"?  Can I have an interpreter, please? 

The story is a myth, from the Northwest.  It is from the Tahltan tribe.  The Tahltan mined obsidian from Mount Edziza.  The story explains how the Tahltan viewed flintknapping - or the products of flintknapping - to some degree.

https://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/exhibits/journeys/english/mountain_1_4a.php

   

caveman2533:
"He flaked the arrow-heads with the palms of his hands, which were of bone."

That's the point, more evidence for Ben theory that we are all doing it wrong.

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