Bois D’ Arc Primitive Skills Camp and Knap-In

Hulston Mill Historic Park
September 22 – 25, 2011 

Dedicated to the research, practice and teaching of stone-age wilderness wisdom and life skills.Held at the beautiful Hulston Mill Historic Park, near Greenfield Missouri.  Directions: From Springfield, take U.S. 160 approximately 30 miles west (approx. 20 mi past Bois D’ Arc Conservation area, 7 miles east of Greenfield) to EE, turn right, follow signs to the Mill.  The Knap-In and Vendor Row starts Thursday and is free to the public.  Workshops start Friday at 9 a.m.  Some of the finest primitive skills instructors in the midwest will be teaching the workshops on the following subjects:

• Friction Fire
• Flintknapping
• Rivercane Flutes
• Basketry and Pottery
• Deadfall Traps
• Pine Pitch and Hide Glue
• Pump Drills
• Bow and Arrow Construction
• Atlatl Construction
• Bone Tools
• Tracking and Trailing
• Primitive First Aid
• Bowls & Containers
• Knife Sharpening 
• Primitive Cooking
• Braintan Buckskin Hide Tanning
• Buckskin Moccasins 
• Cordage & Netting
• Shelter
• Rivercane Blowguns
• Edible, Medical Useful Plant Identification

Evening Programs: 

• Nightwalking
• Stories & Singing by Mescalero Apache John Hernandez
• String and Didgeredoo Music
• Drum Circle