18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY, HISTORICAL TREKKING, AND PERIOD WILDERNESS LIVING.
A LIVING HISTORY BLOG.
18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.
Tuesday 31 December 2013
18th Century Cooking.
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18th century,
Australia,
cooking,
England,
equipment,
fire,
food,
Historical,
living history,
New World,
pots and pans,
utensils
Australia
Australia
A Beginner's Introduction to Open Fire Cooking.
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18th century,
camp fire cooking,
colonial.living history,
cooking,
equipment,
food,
Historical,
open fire cooking,
pioneer,
tools,
utensils,
Video
Australia
Australia
Sunday 29 December 2013
Saturday 28 December 2013
Friday 27 December 2013
Museum & Australian Aboriginal Keeping Place.
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18th century,
19th century,
Aboriginal,
Australia,
Australian,
Historical,
history,
living history,
museum,
native
Australia
Australia
Australian Aboriginal's Gorgets. PLEASE NOTE: Aboriginal People's names are mentioned here.
PLEASE NOTE: Aboriginal People's names are mentioned here.
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18th century,
19th century,
Aboriginals,
Australia,
body armour,
gifts,
gorgets,
historical trekking,
Kings,
living history,
native,
trade
Australia
Australia
18th Century body Armour.
As the threat of firearms increased in the 17th and 18th centuries, body armour was proofed by firing at it with a round ball. The mark left by the round ball was the proof mark.
Armour was worn by military engineers/pioneers, by officers for protection & as a badge of rank. Some body armour was given in trade to Indians and given as a gift to high ranking chiefs. Other body armour was taken from the dead enemy in battle, and so anyone could obtain this body armour if they so wished.
Armour was worn by military engineers/pioneers, by officers for protection & as a badge of rank. Some body armour was given in trade to Indians and given as a gift to high ranking chiefs. Other body armour was taken from the dead enemy in battle, and so anyone could obtain this body armour if they so wished.
Copy of an 18th century Gorget.
18th century Gorget made in the colonies.
Plain brass Gorget.
Plain brass Gorget.
17th to 18th century trade silver gorget. Measures approximately 6.5 inches across. Hand-engraved with a scene of a Native American and a white man sharing a piece pipe over a fire under a tree and a anthropomorphic sun.
18th century silver gorget.
18th century breastplate.
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/21561617_18th-century-armor-breastplate;
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/21561617_18th-century-armor-breastplate;
18th century matching back plate armour.
18th century Northern European shot-proofed breastplate.
Date of origin 18thc.-19th century.
French Cuirass 1865.
Early 18th century Scottish Targe.
Early 18th century wood and leather Scottish Targe.
"they wear a target, composed of leather, wood and brass, and which is so strong, that no ball can penetrate it". 1752.
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17th century,
18th century,
19th century,
body armour,
colonial,
historical trekking,
living history,
Scottish,
shield,
Targe
Australia
Australia
Monday 23 December 2013
Horn Guns. A Link.
Labels:
17th century,
black powder,
flintlock,
gunpowder,
historical trekking,
horn guns,
hunters,
living history
Australia
Australia
The Bandeirantes
The bandeirantes were composed of Indians (slaves and allies), caboclos (people of Indian mixed with white), and some whites who were the captains of the Bandeiras. Members of the 16th–18th century South American slave-hunting expeditions called bandeiras (Portuguese for "flags"). Though their original purpose was to capture and force amerindians into slavery, the bandeirantes later began to focus their expeditions on finding gold, silver and diamond mines. They ventured into unmapped regions in search of profit and adventure. From 1580–1670 the Bandeirantes focused on slave hunting, then from 1670–1750 they focused on mineral wealth. Through these expeditions, the Bandeirantes also expanded Portuguese America from the small limits of the Tordesilhas Line to roughly the same territory as current Brazil. This expansion discovered mineral wealth that made the fortune of Portugal during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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16th century,
17th century,
18th century,
Indians,
Portugal,
slavers,
slaves,
The Bandeirantes
Australia
Portugal
Sunday 22 December 2013
Xmas Message.
May the Great Spirit be with you all over Xmas. Take care and stay safe.
All the very best.
Regards, Keith.
All the very best.
Regards, Keith.
Warrior's Trail By Robert Griffing.
Fort Dearborn, Illinois. (original, anonymous artist).
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18th century,
christmas,
colonial,
frontier art,
Griffing,
historical trekking,
living history,
modern period art,
period art,
XMAS
Australia
Australia
Saturday 21 December 2013
The Housewife Sewing Kit and Comfort.
Everything we carry on the trail is for comfort. Different people have different ideas about what was carried by the average woodsman. But with basic items I do not find it hard to make a decision. Take the housewife for instance. We know for a fact that everyone, no matter who they are or what they are sooner or later will need clothing repair. For the woodsrunner it is even more so because of the increased wear and tear involved in the job. Some will say that we can make a needle and the thread when we need it, which is true, but would it be sensible after going to all the trouble to make a bone needle to then not carry it with you so you have to make a new needle each time you need to make new moccasins or repair your present ones?
The answer is no, it would not be sensible, so using the same logic, if you have access to metal sewing needles, why would you not obtain some and carry them with you? The same then applies to the thread, beeswax and maybe spare clothing buttons. It is just plain common sense to carry these items with you.
Here then are some items you may wish to consider carrying with you on the trail. Needles can do double duty used for removing wood splinters. Fine linen thread may be used in an emergency for stitching up wounds. Beeswax used to wax linen thread can also be used to seal tears in your oilcloth after repair.
The answer is no, it would not be sensible, so using the same logic, if you have access to metal sewing needles, why would you not obtain some and carry them with you? The same then applies to the thread, beeswax and maybe spare clothing buttons. It is just plain common sense to carry these items with you.
Here then are some items you may wish to consider carrying with you on the trail. Needles can do double duty used for removing wood splinters. Fine linen thread may be used in an emergency for stitching up wounds. Beeswax used to wax linen thread can also be used to seal tears in your oilcloth after repair.
Plain wood handled awl with wooden sheath.
An antler handled awl made by the author, a waxed linen thread wrapped wooden sheath, and the author's original awl once owned by his Father.
The author's Housewife and contents.
The pin cushion holds a variety of needles and is wrapped in two sizes of linen thread.
More linen thread on a horn thread winder made by the author, and a hand made bone button.
Rolls of animal sinew and rawhide used for repairing moccasins, and a piece of beeswax for waxing linen thread.
Showing the open pocket that holds spare buttons, beeswax and sinew and rawhide.
Showing the housewife rolled up and tied.
Early 18th century case and accessories.
Wooden needle cases.
Sewing items, including needles, straight pins, thimbles, scissors and a bone cap, possibly to a needle case.
Labels:
18th century,
clothing repair,
equipment repair,
historical trekking,
housewife,
living history,
moccasins,
needles,
sewing,
sewing kit,
survival,
thread
Australia
Australia
Friday 20 December 2013
Pocket Books.
Some pocket books my wife made.
A PDF on 18th century pocket books.
Australia
Australia
Sunday 15 December 2013
Roanoke, has it been found?
Labels:
16th century,
17th century,
18th century,
colonial,
historical trekking,
living history,
New World,
Roanoke,
settlement,
survival
Australia
United States
Friday 13 December 2013
Historical Trekking-Plants and Shelters. Australia.
Labels:
18th century,
Armidale,
Australia,
drink,
flora,
food,
historical trekking,
living history,
New England,
NSW,
plants,
shelter,
survival,
wilderness living
Australia
Australia
Flint and Steel Tinder from the Grass Tree. Australia.
Labels:
18th century,
Australia,
flint and steel fire lighting,
grass tree,
Historical,
Keith H. Burgess,
living history,
New England,
New South Wales,
survival,
tinder,
tinderbox,
Video,
wilderness living
Australia
New England, NSW, Australia
Tuesday 10 December 2013
Rendezvous.
Labels:
19th century,
Australia,
buckskinning,
fun,
fur trade,
living history,
mountain men,
Queensland,
rendezvous,
shooting,
Victoria
Australia
United States
Ammunition You May Not Have Seen Before.
Musket lead round ball joined together in 2s with brass wire. This is to inflict more damage.
17th century. Recovered from the wreck of the Batavia.
http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/artefacts/bat7072-lead;
17th century lead shot. The small shot looks as though it could have been made with a hole punch.
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17th century,
18th century,
Ammunition,
Australia,
Batavia,
bullets,
fusil,
Historical,
historical trekking,
history,
living history,
musket,
round ball,
shipwreck,
smoothbore,
West Australia,
wired round ball
Australia
Australia
Friday 6 December 2013
Woodland Indian Shot Pouches. Another Blog.
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bags,
colonial,
New World,
pouches,
shot pouch,
woodland Indian,
woodsman,
woodsrunner
Australia
North America
Thursday 5 December 2013
Aborigines may have farmed eels, built huts.
Australia's Aborigines, long considered a nomadic people, appear to have farmed eels and built stone dwellings in the southeast of the country for 8,000 years, according to an archaeologist.
The claims, centred on the Gunditjmara people around Lake Condah - about 350 km west of what is today Melbourne - are made by archaeologist Dr Heather Builth and will be aired tonight on ABC TV's science programCatalyst.
In the first evidence of a sedentary Aboriginal community, Builth found what she argues is an ancient eel farm in the form of countless channels crisscrossing the landscape at Lake Condah.
"This had to be excavated," said Builth, an honorary research associate with Monash University in Melbourne who is also helping produce a management plan for the nearby Winda-Mara Aboriginal Corporation near Lake Condah.
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18th century,
Aboriginal,
Australian,
bush,
eel farm,
eel traps,
eels,
farming,
indigenous,
native,
wetlands
Australia
Australia
Bead currency used in Australia's first export industry
Indigenous Australians took European glass beads from Macassan seafarers in return for giving them fishing rights on traditional lands as early as the 18th Century, say archaeologists.
They say the findings could have relevance for native title claims, which rely on this as a precedent for Aboriginal people negotiating access to their lands.
Daryl Wesley and Mirani Litster of the Australian National University reported on the significance of 30 beads they excavated from the Wellington Range in north western Arnhem Land, at this week's Australian Archaeology Association conference in Coffs Harbour.
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18th century,
Aboriginal,
Australia,
bead currency,
history,
indigenous,
living history,
native,
trade beads
Australia
Australia
Tuesday 3 December 2013
Jack of All Trades, Master of None: White Oak Canyon Scout: Testing your kit in foul ...
Jack of All Trades, Master of None: White Oak Canyon Scout: Testing your kit in foul ...: A Virginia Spy makes his way to a cold camp. In the rain, I keep my lock under my arm, instead of keeping my firing hand on over the ...
Dave's ACT: WEETANGARA BUSHRANGERS
Dave's ACT: WEETANGARA BUSHRANGERS: Confused me at first because of the date but this article apparently starts off with a historical reference. This is a tale of an encounte...
Dave's ACT: INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF JAMES AINSLIE
Dave's ACT: INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF JAMES AINSLIE: Dated 1926 this article about the 1820's pioneer James Ainslie tells the tale of his involvement in the Battle of Waterloo and his settl...
Monday 2 December 2013
Woodland Indian Leggings By Sheryl Hartman.
I did write several reviews on this book many years ago. My copy is now an old one. The new version I believe has a new cover image. I did try many times to contact Ms Hartman, but recieved no reply, so I cannot say if this book is still available or not.
These leggings were also worn by white colonials, woodsrunners, scouts, spies & Rangers.
These leggings were also worn by white colonials, woodsrunners, scouts, spies & Rangers.
Author's finger woven wool garters.
Loom woven wool garters.
Author's legging garters tied at the back by the fringe.
When I made my leather leggings, I simply wrapped the leather round my leg & marked where they needed to be sewn. Then I added a little more to allow for the flap. All stitching was done with linen thread.
I finger wove and beaded my own garters. They are a plain olive green wool.
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18th century,
19th century,
america,
colonial,
historical trekking,
leggings,
living history,
New World,
Rangers,
Sheryl Hartman,
The Great Lakes,
woodland Indian leggings,
woodsmen,
woodsrunners
Australia
Australia
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