Arrowhead Kilt Pin for my new Carolina Tartan (and more late-night musings)

[sharpdressedscot]

Is it still pointy?

Cool idea!

[Panache]

Nice work. This arrow head, after a couple of centuries, is again useful. How many of things that we make will we be able to say the same about?

Cheers

Jamie

[Livingston]

Great idea and execution. We have some points also but they are mounted in a box on the wall at my parents' house. They came from the fields of my grandparents in Illinois.

[Amoskeag]

It is the points who speak most clearly to me. Perhaps my decades as an archer and bowhunter have led me to a greater understanding, a perceived kinship if you will, with the paleoindian hunters that once stalked these valleys. I, too, see my self-made arrows of wood, feather, and metal as more than mere tools, but as art...as an extension of my own spirit, ultimately manifest in that awful moment when art meets life, and meat roasting over flame closes the circle.

Would he appreciate its use as an ornament...as an object of art? I think so.

I think that the kinship is much more that "perceived" I would call it a very real kinship. The very fact of the "re-usefullness" (my made-up word) of the artifact, sort of the ultimate in recycling that Panache speaks of is a tangible link to a real person who lived several thousand years ago. We can only imagine his thoughts and feelings and how they were different or similar to our own. Engaging in his crafts give you special insight to the man himself if even only in a removed fashion.Your interpretation is just. Holding a piece like that gives me goosebumps!
As to ornamental status; you get to carry a little piece of that man's spirit forward to the 21st Century. ....... "I think so too!"
Bob

[CelticRanger66]

Very nice Kilt pin!!

[Kiltedmusiclover]

I think that the kinship is much more that "perceived" I would call it a very real kinship. The very fact of the "re-usefullness" (my made-up word) of the artifact, sort of the ultimate in recycling that Panache speaks of is a tangible link to a real person who lived several thousand years ago. We can only imagine his thoughts and feelings and how they were different or similar to our own. Engaging in his crafts give you special insight to the man himself if even only in a removed fashion.Your interpretation is just. Holding a piece like that gives me goosebumps!
As to ornamental status; you get to carry a little piece of that man's spirit forward to the 21st Century. ....... "I think so too!"
Bob

I agree completely!

Well done Bill.

[James MacMillan]

T. H. - If we had a "Posty of the Month" I would nominate this one.

It was a real pleasure to read.

Well done on all accounts! Craftmanship, wordmanship - everything melds perefectly!

Thanks!

[bchunter]

That's a great looking pin.