Living Primitively

My brother Laje do have some rather interesting updates on his blog now. It has been a very good start on the hunting season for him. I am very much looking forward to tanning that fox. Out of prime fur season it is, but the case skinned hide will make a nice bag or similar nonetheless.

I’ll be gone for about 2 months. I’ll first go home preparing for some courses this winter, later I’ll go work as a craftsman in a museum up north. It is this museum, if you by any chance are there within that timeframe chances are you’ll see me making something in the longhouse.

Have a nice summer.

PS! For all I know, Robert may still post from time to time…

Thank you for the invite to help out on your blog. I look forward to helping this blog become a great resource for people who want to learn more about primitive skills. Perhaps I fantasize too much in dreaming that one day we might be able to put on a primitive skills gathering there in Norway!!

Just to let folks know a little about me. I am a traditional tanner who lives on a reservation in Montana, but I’m not an aboriginal American. I make my living as a traditional tanner selling garment quality skins to aboriginal women who use my skins to make clothing and moccasins. Traditional tanning as such is not practiced much among aboriginal people these days.

I have been making braintanned buckskins for about 14 years now. I have also lived very “primitively” for about 3 years straight at one point in my life which has given me a practical perspective on living simply. I did this with children which is also somewhat unusual for many primitive practitioners. One of my children was birthed 1/2 mile off the nearest road in a shelter I made, and without a midwife. I have a wide range of primitive skills that I know and practice but by far I am best at braintanning deerskins.

Thanks again Torjus. I look forward to contributing.

Robert

The blog is now reopened and has had the name changed. This time with several posters. The purpose is threefold:

• Take workload off me.
• Give a broader contribution from people who specialize in other fields.
• Offer these contributers commercial exposure.

I am ashamed to say this, but there will be no posts on this blog for a longer period of time. Currently I am juggeling too many balls at the same time. Writing quality material for the blog takes a lot of time, so I am downprioritizing it for the moment.

Hopefully in some time, I’ll return with a lot of fresh material, possibly also from the expedition to Hitra. Maybe even a book by the turn of the year.

My best regards to you all.
Torjus