This is a dead fall. It consists of a rock which is delicately balanced on top of two articulating sticks. Food is placed on the sharp end of one of the sticks. When the animal eats it, the sticks will seperate and the rock will fall. Shhhh...now be very quiet...

Our bunny friend looks interested...

Hippity, hoppity...Duh!! We got 'em! Let's eat. (Note: No real bunnies, or any other faunal, were used in testing the dead falls.)

Kelly hafts a stone knife to a wooden handle.

Dani secures the blade in place with cordage she made in a previous class.

Yarn is spun using a drop spindle.

This technique is tedious at first, but once learned, it is faster than rolling grass cordage.

Spin, Spin, Spin...the class splices in more hemp, wool, or cotton to make their yarn longer.

Stacy adjusts the thickness of the yarn she is making. In an hour each student produced about one meter of yarn. They'd have a considerable way to go if they were going to weave clothing for an entire family.

Out for an ethnobotany walk.... We hiked the hills behind campus to learn about traditional plant uses.

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