Everytime I listen to your videos, I'm astounded by your depth and breadth of knowledge. You're a gifted teacher. Thank you.

@MalcolmPL

Жыл бұрын

Breadth, not necessarily depths.

@natebrodeur1765

Жыл бұрын

@@MalcolmPL It's all relative. I wonder what it's like to learn of this as an English speaker an ocean away from the Americas, to view it without the cultural background basic information growing up here provides. Too learn of it as you or I might learn the history and culture of Mongols or Maori or Assyrians.

I had heard about Pre-Columbian metallurgy in general, but I didn't know that the Inuit actually had some iron tools. Your videos are always a treat.

Those knives towards the end look cool af. Amazing design

Thanks for answering these questions and thanks for the recommendation!

@MalcolmPL

Жыл бұрын

Think nothing of it.

I have done a bit of learning on my own since I asked the wampum question, but I was still pleased to hear your answer. Thanks!

The people that developed their own style of swords and daggers really made my eyes go big, you can oh so clearly see similarities in design with ancient British/Continental bronze age and early iron age swords/dirks/daggers. Facinating!

I'm not necessarily an expert, but I know a thing or two about bow woods and hickory is an excellent bow wood. It's highly elastic and ideal for flatbow designs (as opposed to long-bow designs). It's a great wood for beginning bowyers because it's very forgiving to flaws in workmanship.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! It's a joy to learn.

This was a really cool feature, Thanks for making it

Never heard of Pemmican until now. I want to try some

@MalcolmPL

Жыл бұрын

It’s kind of bland. Mostly just tastes like grease. Unless you add a lot of salt or berries.

I especially like your discussion regarding what the Haudenosaunee carried on long journeys. As someone who has works in food and the history, I have wondered about what the ones before us carried. The three most important food items for a long journey in my opinion would be: corn flour, maple sugar, and pemmican for their weights and calorie densities. Some other things that I think could sustain the people on their journeys would be dried berries, powdered or small cuts of dried meat (fish, venison, game), pumpkin or squash seeds, walnuts, hickory nuts, chestnuts, dried mushrooms (puffball, chicken of the woods, morels, chanterelles), dried vegetables (corn, beans, squash, manoomin, potatoes, carrot, turnip), dried fruits (plums, grapes, crababbles, paw paw, any dried berries), any foraged or dried green one can find. So just a few things to get your minds working. Niawenkowa sewakwekon

I'm not sure I agree with you on your gun comments.Perhaps there was little transition time for the Iroquois but in the British isles the last battle with a bow was 1688 in the battle of Mulroy. The Mary rose's (Henry the 8ths flagship) hold was found to contain hundreds of English longbows despite them having access to match lock rifles by that time. A match lock rife does have some major draw backs that a bow still might be useful. There just seems to have been a transitional time from what I've read depending on time and place. I have read that plains Indians switched to smaller bows over their longbows when they gained horses. Rather than switch to a long barreled musket on horseback.

@jooky5

Жыл бұрын

The Comanche used it until the revolver became popular

It's a real shame my people in the pacific northwest here dont really ever make the traditional daggers. I hope to change that because they are truly beautiful works of art like many other art works my ancestors created.

@MalcolmPL

Жыл бұрын

I wish you well in that endeavor. It would be good if people were still making them. Work patiently and you’ll do fine.

@aluegyatsmax9756

Жыл бұрын

@@MalcolmPL thank you

Wait a second. So you're telling me I've been sitting on perfect wood for a bow this entire time and didn't know it?!?! I have a 8ftx2ft log of Black Locust and a 10ftx1ft log of Orange wood at my disposal! Should I go for it?

@notreallymyname3736

Жыл бұрын

You definitely should. I've never used black locust myself, but the Traditional Bowyer's Bible has a ton of information on it (volume 2 and 4 if I remember correctly).

@Ivegotwormsinme

Жыл бұрын

@@notreallymyname3736 I really want to give making a bow a shot. Up next is gonna be a spoke shave to go along with the drawknife I made. I'm fairly confident I'll be able to pull it off. Now that I think about it, it's gonna be a lot harder than I think it's going to be. We'll see I guess! Thanks for the tip!

@notreallymyname3736

Жыл бұрын

@Ivegotwormsinme be careful! It's addictive haha. Homemade tools are just awesome; aren't they? A draw knife is a great bow making tool, but I've had a lot better luck with my spoke shave when the grain gets weird.. It's not necessary, but I highly recommend a Shinto rasp and a cabinet scrapper for bow making. A farriers rasp is great, but the Japanese style rasp doesn't clog, and cuts beautifully. Good luck!

Very interesting, meegwetch

I did find them interesting!

i feel like that is video would be good to expand into seperate videos.

very nice , episode 2 when ?

@MalcolmPL

Жыл бұрын

Given the rate at which I accumulated these questions, probably in two years.

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I have a simple question was native life better and more rewarding

@MalcolmPL

Жыл бұрын

I believe so. And that’s generally the consensus among people that I know. There was strong and healthy community, there was individual purpose. There was good and varied work. But it’s actually a really big question.

What did people do with their time in the winter when it is dark 16 hours a day?

@MalcolmPL

Жыл бұрын

Tell stories and work by the fire.

As far as I know, and generally, fortifications in Europe were not designed to sucker enemies into attacking. They were made to stall enemy advances. They functioned in the context of a larger armed group that could relieve the fortification once the stall tactic had given the defending faction time to assemble its army. Therefore they were made as impregnable as possible, and possibly for other reasons as well. This makes me question the idea that maze fortifications were designed to encourage an attack. Do we have evidence that this was the thinking behind mazes? Is there context that made maze strategy predominate over the stall strategy?

@MalcolmPL

8 ай бұрын

I don't know of any period source that examines the utility. As far as I'm aware it's speculation by historians, archaeologists and interpreters. By my own thinking, If you were just trying to slow people down, then logically speaking a plain wall would be easier to construct and a better delaying tactic than the maze, thus the maze must have some special utility, which the theory in question fits quite well.

A better world

Did they not try to breach the walls by chopping through them with axes?

@UrsahSolar

Жыл бұрын

Stone axes really suck at chopping wood. You'd get shot before you could get through.

@MalcolmPL

Жыл бұрын

In addition to the time it would take to cut through, Real walls would be joined together with ropes, such that if one log was cut it would remain held in place by its neighbors.

@SuperFunkmachine

Жыл бұрын

And go where? in to the waiting weapons of your foes! Setting a fire to the walls is the safer way to do it if you can out shoot the defenders.

tell us, what were the original lacross balls made of? wood? bone? stone? rubber imported from mexico or south america? of the Olmec creation?

@MalcolmPL

Жыл бұрын

Wood wrapped in leather.

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So…I’m not an expert, therefore this is a question coming at you in the form of a statement: it was my understanding that the bow does have advantages over the musket. Reload time and accuracy. Obviously if each party only has one shot at the target a musket has the advantage, but if they miss or there is multiple targets the bow wins. And I can’t seem to remember when rifling the barrel of a gun became common…someone help me out here.

@MalcolmPL

Жыл бұрын

The bow shoots about twice as fast as the musket. But is not significantly more accurate. The issue is that the bow doesn’t compete in terms of damage. It takes several arrows to equate a musket ball.

@jarlnils435

Жыл бұрын

rifled barrels were invented in the mid 16th century, but only very rich nobles had the money to order such a weapon. And about the one shot, a musket is reliable at 20 meters, not more. In the prussian army, a good musketier was a man who hit out of 5 shots a target in the form of horse and rider 3 times on 50 meters. An archer would start shooting at 200 meters with massed fire and will start to kill individual targets on 100-60 meters

Black powder rifles are more effective than modern handguns, just slow af.

I hate to bother but I heard that the comache tribe used bows at combat up until the revolver invention is that just a myth to your knowlege?

@MalcolmPL

Жыл бұрын

It's not a myth. The Comanche were in the Spanish sphere of influence, the Spanish policy forbade selling firearms to natives. Thus the gun didn't become available until the Americans expanded westward in the eighteen hundreds. By this point the horse had already been well established in the culture. Horses change the situation, bows are much more viable when combined with horses.

@amirbroides5333

Жыл бұрын

@@MalcolmPL I never knew that thats very interesting thank you very much

LOL. Too short to warrant a video on it's own? And yet whole books have been written on many of these subject. Not criticizing you mind you. Because, fire arm v bow and arrow? Yeah, big nope. But on tobacco for instance? Just seeing you smoke a pipe would warrant a video.