Great Lakes Traditional Arts Gathering 2013

 This year's GLTAG, located on Drummond Island Michigan, was a great event. The full range of primitive skills are taught at this event, and is great for those who are already familiar with these skills or beginners. I had a great time and took pictures during many of my classes.
 My first class was the Stone Tool Practicum Symposium. The instructors were Larry Kinsella, Bob Love, and Bob Berg. We chopped down a dead tree that was culled last year when basket-makers took the bark off. We used handaxes, ground stone axes, and a copper axe to chop it down.

                                               Bob Berg uses a flint handaxe to start the cut.

                                      Larry Kinsella uses a ground stone axe to chop.

             Here is a video of Larry chopping with a stone axe. You can hear Bob Love in the background                   teaching the class about stone axes.

                       In this video, Larry uses the copper axe to make the final cuts in the tree.

Here is a picture of me knapping (third from left). Bob Love is on the far left.