Subject: [permaculture] Permaculture use for Canada Thistle
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 02:21:06 -0700
I watched a documentary on TV tonight about a Cherokee Indian craftsman in the
mountains of North Carolina who uses the following materials to make blowgun
darts and blowguns:
Darts:
locust for the shafts
Canada thistle for the feathers (bound to the shafts with cord)
Blowgun:
river cane
Here in Chapel Hill we have a kind of "bamboo" called reeds that grows near wet
areas which is fairly smooth and straight; we also have a number of other true
bamboo's from small to large. Is river cane a bamboo?
Maybe you could hunt rabbits with a well-designed blowgun, otherwise it would
make a fun toy for target practice.