Shell gorget

Serious inspiration:

Boar's tusk mouth ornament

Boar's tusk mouth ornament, Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea 10" high by 11" wide When the mouth piece is held between the teeth, the upper tusks curve over the eyebrows, producing a very fierce impression. Early to mid-20th century

Source: zenakruzick.com via Dens We Tunneled on Pinterest

Ud-je-jock, Pelican, a Boy, 1845, by George Catlin (Ojibwe/Chippewa)

Source: arttattler.com via Dens We Tunneled on Pinterest

Shaman

It is this phase of the Mesolithic period (Middle Stone Age), presumably the first half of the 7th millennium BC, during which an extraordinary burial, interpreted as that of a female shaman, war placed in the earth. The deceased young woman was interred in a 30-cm thick layer of red hematite, a mineral colourant, together with an at most twelve month-old child. Gifts for the deceased had been placed in the grave, among which were several flint blades, two bone needles, a antler hoe, a polished stone celt and several decorative plaques from boar tusk. In addition, there were two bones of a crane, one bone of a beaver and of red deer, 16 red deer incisors, two matching skull fragments with antlers of a roe deer, shell fragments of at least three swamp turtles and 120 fragments of freshwater mussels. A container made from a crane’s bone held 31 tiny flint blades (Fig. 6). The reconstruction of the shaman’s dress as shown here is based upon the position of the finds in the grave. * (pdf link)

Neoleatherstockingist female furry

Seems like I've been posting primarily for the lady leatherstocking recently. So be it.

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Neoleatherstockinist because of the fierceness, the single-action revolver, the gloves and shut up I get to define the genre is why.

Another nice bit of headgear

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In additional news - I have acquired a couple large abalone shells. Iridescent silver gorget, ho! 

Tiara and necklace

 

Photo from FB - the origin web site is here.

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I saw a lovely shell gorget (a European-style crescent; not a NA-style disk) at the Black Birch the other night and have now added abalone gorget to my project list. It slots next to weaving bike baskets.