Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: Marc St Louis on August 21, 2008, 09:24:48 pm
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Had a pretty good couple of days. Found a nice HHB that wants to come home with me plus the wife and I found a really nice patch of Sweetgrass. The HHB is not that big, only about 8" across but it is straight with no branches for a good 12' and has very little spiral growth, a plus with HHB. We picked enough Sweetgrass for 3 braides and it didn't even show. Good stuff
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don't mean to sound dumb, but what do you use the sweetgrass for ??
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Nice find.....
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don't mean to sound dumb, but what do you use the sweetgrass for ??
I guess you've never smelled Sweetgrass :)
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Sweet grass is used by North American Indians...... It's a sacred plantto them..... it is used in peace and healing rituals...... Leaves are dried and made into braids and burned as vanilla-scented incense.....the long shoots are used in making baskets.
Natives of the Great Plains believe it was the first plant to cover Mother Earth..... The Anishinaabe (Ojibwa).....and other Algonquian first nations of Canada believe it is a purifier, and burn sweetgrass before all ceremonies. It is a reminder to respect the earth and all things it provides.
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Sweet grass is used by North American Indians...... It's a sacred plantto them..... it is used in peace and healing rituals...... Leaves are dried and made into braids and burned as vanilla-scented incense.....the long shoots are used in making baskets.
Natives of the Great Plains believe it was the first plant to cover Mother Earth..... The Anishinaabe (Ojibwa).....and other Algonquian first nations of Canada believe it is a purifier, and burn sweetgrass before all ceremonies. It is a reminder to respect the earth and all things it provides.
It was burned before all ceremonies at one time but now Sage is used, possibly because Sweetgrass is getting rare. Sweetgrass is actually a prehistoric plant and was around when the dinosaurs roamed the earth
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Hmm, interesting on the weetgrass. I think all raw materials are good stuff :).
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that HHB looks pretty straight,nice luck ya got there.
not sure where your at,but here in mn the hhb rarely ever gets bigger than that in diameter. its a real dense heavy tight ringed wood,taked for ever for it to grow big.
the one and only that i got my hands on,from a friend,when i split it ,tried to be very carefull,ended up with about 120 degree of twist,even though the bark didnt look that bad.
god luck, we will all be waiting to see your next master pice from that.
peace,
tim
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Tim
I have cut 12" trees that were straight but those are rare. I know where there at least 2 HHB that are no less than 12" in diameter but there's no point in cutting them as you can clearly see the twist in the bark On the other hand I have been thinking of harvesting them for boards. I have also found many that were even bigger than that, too gnarly to cut though
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Very nice tree,Don't find them like that around here very often. :)
Pappy