Native American Peyote Church NAC Special Veteran's Ceremonial Gourd w/ Flag

Description: This is a special Gourd I made for gifting to a veteran. I know when I went off to the army, how I missed my family, my culture and my church. I was asked to do things I would never have imagined. I was afraid of losing myself, forgetting who I was. What was important to me was that I could use my instrument to remember who I was, and to remember why I was fighting. Shaking the rattle and singing those prayer songs took me back home for a bit. That is why I made this special gourd. For our soldier boys and girls, either coming back or just going away. This is the least we can do for them to show how much we appreciate their sacrifice. I wanted to be able to make something special for them. Thankfully, Creator blessed me with letting me use my hands to make nice things. This gourd is the results of more than 50 years of practice doing just that. This gourd came out pretty well perfect, which is why I choose to use a gourd shell that was kinda stained. To keep me humble, to keep reminding myself that we pathetic two legged's can never be perfect. The best we can do is to try to do our best. This gourd is the best work I can do. The flag is inlayed from 64 seperate pieces of dyed wood. Some red, some blue and the rest the original light basswood color. There are 50 stars, all perfectly spaced, and 13 stripes, also perfectly spaced. Each piece, the stars, the stripes, the blue background, all are cut from seperate pieces, inlayed into the handle. The inlay is seamless, just like good peyote stich. The beadwork is freehand style, with a Teepee, and several interlocking waterbirds, and some stylized peyote buttons. The beadwork was done by my good Dine brother Patrick Scott. Patrick does the finest beadwork I have seen so I asked him to make this one for me many years ago. This gourd took me about 20 years to make, a little at a time, patiently correcting mistake after mistake, until I corrected all of them, to make this gourd as perfect as I could. It sounds great, crisp and clean. The stopper is from a real Hippo tusk I brought back from Africa. The brains are seeds from a special plant that grows in Hawaii, I don't know the name of that plant, we just call it the gourd brains plant. These seeds came from Nani's place in Kipahulu, Maui. I hope someone can pass this along to one of our well deserving veterans, to show how much we care and to help keep them sane in this crazy world, as they go off to defend and protect our way of life. I would love to see this go to some deserving veteran. If you have a veteran in mind and cannot afford this, feel free to send me a message or an offer and maybe we can work something out. Thanks for looking this over. Feel free to ask me any questions on this. Aho and Aloha to all my relations.

Price: 350 USD

Location: Carson City, Nevada

End Time: 2024-12-04T21:26:51.000Z

Shipping Cost: 25 USD