Local Artist Proves That Old Ways Are Still Alive
Windspeaker › Vol. 26 Nbr. 6, September 2008
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"Creating the medicine bags became a huge undertaking because I thought that it would be fitting that each of the bags should be decorated with porcupine quillwork done in the Thunderchild's traditional colors, green and yellow," said [Norman Moyah].
"I get all my quills from road-kills and then clean and wash them, ready to dye in large batches. This project took a lot of time and a lot of quills, with twelve days to make fifteen bags similar to pipe bags, but I wanted Thunderchild to look really good in the gift giving ceremonies. They were surprised because they had originally wanted simple little pull bags and were not expecting quillwork.""Our visitor from Hawaii received a Medicine Bag and I wondered how he faired taking it through the Canadian/USA customs, the leather, the quillwork and special sacred medicines, many unknown and undocumented except by oral tradition through our healers," said Moyah.See the full content of this document
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Local Artist Proves That Old Ways Are Still Alive
Fifteen honoured guests, contributors and Aboriginal celebrities were given a rare and beautiful gift during the closing ceremonies of the 2008 Treaty Six Medicine Chest Gathering of Nations.
Each received a hand crafted, smoked moose...See the full content of this document
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