Cordage: Dogbane is the most fibrous of the materials we used in lab this week, allowing us to more easily translate wool working skills to this material. It produced very thin cord that was more easily added to than the other materials. Basswood was much more difficult to work with than dogbane. Its thicker fibers…
Week 6: Fiber Lab Data
Cordage Our group started at the fiber processing station. We gravitated towards the tan cattails and spent the next 1.5 hours making cordage out of them. Austin collected the cattails from the arboretum this week, but our group could imagine people making cordage in the winter out of cattails collected in the fall. Our first…
Group E Week 5 Lab Data
Due to the nature of this lab, most of the data I collected as data collector is qualitative and anecdotal to my experience and the experience of my group members. Learning to Spin The first activity we didi in this lab was learn to spin using out hand spindles that Alejandata gave us. The spindle…
Week 5 Lab Data, Group F
Introduction The nature of this week’s lab was experiential rather than experimental. As a result, the majority of data collected is observational (and, therefore, partially subjective). Times are recorded in some instances to measure efficiency, but there were no official constraints. Learning to Spin At 1:45pm, each student received a drop spindle, a leader string,…
Week 5 Lab Data – Group D
Because lab this week involved working with wool and making things with our hands, there were very few numbers involved and the data collected was mostly qualitative and subjective. Introduction: Learning to Spin At 1:50, we began lab by learning how to spin. We each received our own drop spindles, balls of roving wool from…
Group B Week 5 Lab Data
Due to the nature of this lab, the data that was recorded is mostly qualitative rather than quantitative. Part 1: Learning how to spin At approximately 1:55 pm, Alejandra begins teaching us how to drop spindle. We are given a wooden spindle, a string, and a bundle of wool to start. We are instructed to…
Week 5 Lab Data — Group A
Due to the nature of this particular lab, there is very little quantitative data recorded here — most “data” collected was subjective to our experiences. However, I did record times for some events, and these are included here on the off chance that they’re somehow helpful Learning to Spin 1:50 — Everyone receives a spindle,…
Week 5: Woolworking – Group C Data
Because this lab was more experiential than experimental, this report is more observational than data-driven. Beginning of lab It was made very clear from the start that we, like many women in the ancient world, were expected to spend all idle time (and, if possible, busy time too) spinning. As such, we were each given…
Week 4: Ritual Fire – Group E Data
Group 1 Bovine Femur and Tail Together 0min: 00sec femur and tail placed on fire 1:00 lots of smoke. tail starts moving wrong way 2:00 tail has moved really far wrong way. fire starting to get bigger 3:50 wind pushing fire over, but 3 feet of flame from fire 6:00 Jake flips over our tail…
Week 4: Rituals with Fire – Group A Data
This week, Group A worked with Austin and Group D on investigating early English cremation rites with linen-wrapped pork shoulders. We were comparing the arguments of Calvin Wells and Jackie McKinley over the shape of the pyre and position of our “bodies.” Before: The first steps in this process were to weigh our pork shoulders…
