PASTIMES OF ANCESTRAL PEOPLES

Saturday, May 3^rd 1-3pm Followed by Q&A

Make a ring and pin game using acorn caps, and acorn spinning tops. The bounty of oak trees offers us all a chance to make challenging and fun games that the local indigenous peoples made and played. After learning the fundamentals of making and using stone and bone tools, you will grind and drill acorn caps on sandstone and use your new deer bone borer to help make a hole in the center. You will shape and sharpen a short tree branch, then learn to hand twist a flax fiber into a string to assemble and complete the game. Using the same sandstone and bone tool, you will learn to select, drill, and make acorn spinning tops. Depending on weather, participants will also have the opportunity to help create a friction fire that our group will use to make our pine pitch. Your instructor Charles Kritzon (creator of willowdeer.com) strives to highlight our human connection to the past and our natural world. He is a Certified Interpretive Guide through the National Association for Interpretation (NAI). Ages 8+ welcome w/adult supervision. Meeting location Gold Hill/Placerville area. Cost: $30/person or $100/family (4 max). A detailed email will be sent once you register online at REGISTRATION LINK