Lets make a Bone Whistle! Details on how to make a bone whistle with only materials from nature.
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Welcome to Willow Deer Education! This channel is here to help you learn how to make arts and ornaments of our ancient ancestors using only the tools and materials they had available to them from the Natural World.
This tutorial will teach you the techniques of how to cut and drill bone using only stone tools and can be used to make bone whistles, flutes, tubes for blowing pigment and bone beads. On large bones these simple techniques can be used to make larger tools and ornaments.
How to make a Bone Whistle. This in-depth tutorial will take you through all of the steps needed to make a bone whistle. Starting with the selection of the bone and use of the stone tools found in the natural world you will successfully complete a bone whistle. This project is suitable for all ages.
I encourage everyone watching these videos to use only the tools and materials that were available to the original makers of these objects, but do not hesitate to use modern equivalents or even modern tools to complete your project. Learning the process if foremost, adapting to ancestral tools can always be added once you have achieved competence in making these objects.
Material resources.
Bones. Any straight hollow bone can make a whistle and prehistorically whistles have been made from everything from mountain lion and jaguar femurs to the 40,000 year old flute made from a vulture wing bone found in Hohle Fels cave in Germany.
Caution! In the U.S. only domestic or commercially raised birds and those classified as game birds are legal to use in any way. The feathers and bones of ALL OTHER BIRDS are illegal to have in your possession whether you hunted it, or it was a road kill or died of natural causes. Mammal bones are subject to local laws and restrictions but are generally not as emphatically policed as wild bird parts.
Wild turkey wing bones can be ordered from Custom Feathers: www.customfeathers.com/. Ask for un-bleached bones for a more natural looking whistle. Ulnas work best for whistles, but the large humerus bones can work and the radius bones make good beads. My first whistle was made from a turkey leg bone leftover from Thanksgiving dinner.
Hunters and hunt clubs can be a reliable source of large bird (turkey, goose) wing bones as the wings are in most cases just discarded as waste.
Stone tools.
The stone used far tools to make these whistles are little more than gravel, having a few sharp points and some straight rough edges that work to saw through the bone. Safely smashing one stone against another will produce all of the needed edges required to complete this project.
Small pieces of sandstone slabs can usually be acquired for free at many landscape supply yards as they are to small to sell for use in landscaping.
Later videos will specifically cover how to create many specialized stone tools for drilling, sawing and cutting without the need of any advanced lithic training that is required for making arrowheads, spearpoints and axes.
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About Chuck is a primitive skills specialist with 30 years experience teaching and experimenting with ancient tools and materials. He has replicated items for museums and museum exhibits and has taught students of all ages while being on staff at a regional Indian Museum in Northern California as well as gatherings along the U.S. West Coast and Canada.
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I hope you are alright and doing well, it has been a while since you posted. Please continue this series of videos! I love the info and your style of explaining the stuff!
Great teaching ! Thank you
This is very good video. If you show how to blow the whistle and make sound in the video, this will be a perfect educational video!!!
For example, you mark one end. The the viewer know which end you blow.
For example. How you put your mouth on the end of the bone.
Awesome!, Thank you!
This is a great video. I've had a few failed attempts at bone whistles. Thanks for the tips
Hi Cliff, I am pleased you found it useful! Good luck with your future whistle making attempts.
I actually got two to work over the weekend. It was one I carved out of a cherry branch but it was my first working whistle. The other was the end of a buffalo horn. On to the bones.
graet video! i have watched it many time and every time im learning somthing new! thanks!!
I am pleased you have learned from this video! I hope you can now make whistles of your own from what you have learned. Thanks for your positive comments.
Thank you. Very thorough and and methodical.
Thanks Bert,
I tried to make the process as clear as possible so that those who watched it were successful in making their own whistles.
Great video C.K. I've tried this before without luck, but having watched the video, I'm wondering if there may not have been a bit of bone fleck on the inside of the hole. Time to see if the insects have finished their work on that poor roadkill turkey I found. Would a flute or recorder style instrument be pretty much the same, just adding the additional holes?
Thanks! Yes making a flute or recorder is exactly the same. Also, adding the wax to make the ramp will help almost any whistle work, and make sure the holw does not wrap around the sides to much, that will keep it from working even with the ramp under the hole. Good luck and let me know how it goes! The oldest musical instrument identified is a flute made from a vulture wing bone that was 40,000 years old and MANY other partial flutes and whistles have been found in Paleolithic sites. Dont forget to make bone beads from the radius bones!
Hi there,
This video is excellent. I am wondering if you can advise me on a hide that I have. I washed it and then froze it while it was wet, before stretching. Do you advise any way to thaw it and stretch it to preserve the fur?
What about using modern tools and other items?😊
Yes, modern tools can make it much easier and more exact in many instances. but I strive to teach how all of the same processes were accomplished before the advent of modern steel, bronze or copper tools. When we we all truly atempt to "rewild" ourseleves into a naurela setting, we run the risk of not succeeding in our orgin
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I would use a saw.
Hello I made a whistle following these steps. The initial blow makes the whistle sing well but when I blow more air to hit a higher note the whistle softens. What could be the issue?
The diameter of the bone and the length from the hole to the end of the whistle has everything to do with tone of the whistle. Blowing harder can introduce a doubling effect that creates a higher pitch in the whistle. The oscillation of the air inside the whistle is the ultimate driver of the output of the sound that occurred. Thanks for watching the video and I am so glad you where successful in making a bone whistle on your own.
I have an owl bones. Will this work with 🦉 bone? Owl wing bone
As long as it is hollow and fairly straight it should work fine. FYI, Owl bones (as all but game birds such as ducks, geese and turkeys )are protected and technically illegal to use, but I come across bird remains of all sorts. I usually end up sharing them with Native Friends who can use them in their ceremonial work. Good luck on your whistle.
@@charleskritzon9359 yhank you sir. And I know about the law. I'm native from Fort Belknap rez in Montana. Thank you for the heads up tho friend. 🙏
@ValerieLaChicaLegendaria I support using any wild animal parts that have died of natural causes, but understand the need to protect birds from unscrupulous hunters and those hoping to make a quick buck off of killing and selling bird parts and feathers for profit. If it is naturally deceased or predated and I find usable parts I find nothing wrong in using these parts for personal or spiritual purposes. As long as it is not resold in any manner, I support the recycling of natural materials if done in a respectful manner.
ash from the fire would work.
Great Idea! With water the ash would mix with the marrow and make a rudimentary soap. With the right combination it would completely de-grease the bone. Thanks for the insight!
How do you blow the whistle?
Simply put the end of the whistle up to your lips and blow air steadily through the whistle. All whistles are different, some require only a little blowing some can withstand a greater amount of air through them and can make a very loud sound. It works the same way as any other whistle. Good luck!
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