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The back of my blue jacket! #Repost @loren_denim (@get_repost) ・・・ Custom #chainstitchembroidery #chainstitch #brooklyn #greenpoint

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And the front! #squatront #spafon #clotheshorse

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Shaman

Female shaman's caftan:

Headdress of a "big" Evenk shaman:

Seminole man, Storter's store, The Everglades, Florida, 1906

William Augustus Bowles

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"Bowles was born in Maryland in 1763. He joined the British forces in America at an early age, but was dismissed from his post. He took refuge with the Creek Indians, learned their language, married a chief’s daughter, and lived the life of an adventurer. The unorthodox and romantic dress he wears in the portrait is illustrative of this unconventional life.
In 1781 he was reinstated by the British forces, and commanded the Creeks in General Arthur Campbell’s defence of Pensacola. Later, in 1790, he came to England, where he was to promote a mad-cap scheme for the invasion of Mexico. He was twice captured by the Spanish: the first time he escaped to Sierra Leone, but the second time, in 1799, was fatal. He was imprisoned in the Moro Castle at Havana and died there in 1805." *

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.

Dog tooth violence

I have no idea how the teeth were really obtained - the pun was just too good to resist.

Excavators at a site near Leipzig (map) uncovered more than a hundred dog teeth arranged close together in a grave dated to between 2,500 and 2,200 B.C.
According to archaeologist Susanne Friederich, the teeth were likely decorations for the outer flap of a handbag.
"Over the years the leather or fabric disappeared, and all that's left is the teeth. They're all pointing in the same direction, so it looks a lot like a modern handbag flap," said Friederich, of the Sachsen-Anhalt State Archaeology and Preservation Office. *

Seth Kinman and the Grizzly Bear Chair

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Via Wondermark.

Ben Davis

Inujirushi bags

Currently the object of otaku-like obsession. I had momentary reservations about how well one would fit with a voyageur bike, then I realized I'm making it up as I go along - liking it and if push comes to shove, the stratospheric price, are the main considerations.

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The manufacturer's name is an easter egg in and of itself. The standard translation on the net seems to be Inujirushi = Dog Brand. The first part (inu = dog) is pretty obvious, but when one googles jirushi, the first hit is for Uma-jirushi - horse insignia.

"Uma-jirushi (馬印 lit. horse insignia) were massive flags used in feudal Japan to identify a daimyo or equally important military commander on the field of battle. They came into prominence during the Sengoku period. While many were simply large flags, not very different from sashimono or hata-jirushi, most were three-dimensional figures, more like kites, and in the shape of bells, gongs, umbrellas, or streamers." *

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A 3-D samurai helmet insignia (properly outfitted with streaming vidcams and UV LASER EYES!!) for the dogs to wear while tearing around with me on the voyageur bike? Yes, please. And yes, I love tangents.

Bön abbott and entasseled C96 totin' retainers

One of Joseph Rock's photographs.

Rivet Head

You'd better believe Rivet Head is getting added to the blogroll toot sweet!

Via Hemmings.

M. Lucien Guibert

Natty and practical.

Best boots ever

Limmers.

I'm going to add boots to my earlier list of things that are greatly improved by being fit to your particulars. They may be a little pricey initially, but my pair are over 20 years old and are still in great shape. The local teevee newsmagazine did a feature on Peter Limmer (thus the post) - click on the picture of the custom lasts below -or here- to go to it.

Photo via Scoobyfoo.

There's also a classic 'Limmer shot' - boots dangling in space in a very mountainous setting - you'll see a couple in the video linked above.

Nigel Cabourn Parka

The first parka I've seen that might compete with a suitably UV-faded-to-mauve N-3B as a substrate for 2nd Miskatonic Expedition patches.


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Much more on Cabourn's web site.

Thanks, Pluvi.