How advanced were they, I love this painting….

[Tom007]

Jack Paluh, a famous wildlife painter produced some of the most beautiful turkey hunting scenes. It's amazing to imagine how the early settlers hunted the Wild Turkey with the primitive equipment they had. This painting imagines a Native American trying to harvest a turkey with his stick-bow. Notice the turkey feather-fletched arrows, some sort of fur-hide type blind/cover, and the hen decoy? We can only imagine that with an abundance of birds and these somewhat advanced techniques, one can say they probably were very successful. Have a safe summer......

[aclawrence]

Cool painting. I love turkey artwork.  I'm sure the Indians found ways to be successful on their turkey hunts.


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[JeffC]

Cool painting Tom, thanks for sharing. I would think that most hunting they did would be by chance/ luck, they hunted to survive, walk woods and kill 1st thing that gave them the opportunity.   

[Tom007]

Thanks, I can only imagine the first settlers seeing huge flocks of birds...wow

[Turkeybutt]

Don't know the artist of this piece but it appears to be similar work.

[zelmo1]

Very cool artwork. I enjoy those types of paintings/ drawings. Z

[Happy]

Pretty sure that's a rock that they are hiding behind. And I am pretty sure that killing turkeys was for survival and not sport. So yeah, tip the odds in your favor as much as possible in that case. I sure would. They also ran buffalo off of cliffs and drapped deer skin over themselves to crawl towards deer. There was a lot more game and fewer people as well, so it didn't affect things much.

[Greg Massey]

Thanks for sharing the art/pictures, this will make you have a different perspective of those times and the wild turkeys ....Remember the pilgrims

[guesswho]

In the first picture.   Is that a DSD on the bottom right?   

[crow]

Nice art work,
Him and Robert Griffing did some cool work from that time period.


I think it's a rock also, unless it's one of those mirror blinds reflecting off the rock behind it

[jhoward11]

Would love to have this painting on my wall! Just think how far they could have shot with TSS arrowheads. Had to go there didn't I. It's the off season!!!

[bbcoach]

Great Pics Tom!  What NO camo, TSS or decoys??  NOPE, just WOODMANSHIP!  We mess this up and we don't eat!

[Happy]

I am surprised Guesswho didn't notice the double beard in the second picture. He would have changed his answer.

[Lone Star Eastern]

They say the Natives used wingbones dating all the way back to 6500 BC!


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[Paulmyr]

They say the Natives used wingbones dating all the way back to 6500 BC!


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It actually looks like the man laying on the ground is holding a wingbone call in his left hand or a call of some sort atleast.