My interest in the life style of the indigenous peoples of this area started as a young farm kid walking the corn and bean fields in search of pottery chips and arrow heads as well as listening to the stories told of my great Uncle Slim who wore brain tanned shirts and made dugout canoes. giclee giclee  
. Over time and through the acquaintance of many skilled artisans and historians I have been fortunate enough to learn brain tanning, the carving of pipe stone into artistic pipes and then by carefully saving the filing dust have learned to use it as a color medium when producing artifact replicas to decorate my tipi with.giclee giclee schaefer giclee giclee  
 

My tipi tends to look like a mix of early settler pieces and primitive stone tools mixed here and there with a few modern conveniences, all of which add to my quest for old art forms and a greater appreciation of the patience and quality produced by great artisans. giclee giclee		  
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
In addition I was fortunate enough to be a friend of the Ahlman family of Morristown and had the opportunity to build a reeanactor site complete with a stone circle, a life size wooly mammoth for atl atl practice and a blue clay pit for more color medium.
 
  I was also able to watch as that stone circle was pushed aside and the area reclaimed by my friends in the cowboy group just as it happened all across this continent: thus coming full circle back to the present. but with more insight into the old ways as well as a very small taste of the pain of the thing called progress.