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This Basketmaker style shaped knife (culture from the south of the USA) is of Native American inspiration.
I knapped a blade out of an opaque black obsidian from America. My choice is made on obsidian, because it is a rock that was very much used by Native American. I chose it black because it is the color that will go best with the handle I was going to decorate.
I engraved and painted handle with red ochre, it is made of juniper and a deerskin strap is attached to it. I use this wood because I like it for its smell and fine grain. Moreover it is a wood present in America which was probably used by the Basketmakers.
The obsidian blade is attached to the handle with a prehistoric glue, essentially resin and a deer tendon ligature coated with tendon glue.
The case, fringed, is made of rawhide covered with tanned deer hide.
Anita has chosen to decorate it with a few bone and basalt beads (volcanic rock as well as obsidian).
As usual I gave the appearance of a set worn and used by its owner by applying a light patina on this piece.
Light, because I wanted to give the look of a room that would have lived only a few years with its owner.
Primitive fiction
If you were going back 4500 years, you could come across a group of hunter-gatherers going up the dry stream of a river in southern America.
He follows this passage that cuts the road of a herd of buffalo seen a few days before.
One of the hunters carries a knife with a blade cut in the black obsidian of the southern mountains.
