your_comforting_company
04-25-2010, 10:26 AM
I have a lot of pictures from the Festival a week ago. After much musing and meditation over the past week, since the festival, I decided I'd share some pictures for project ideas.
Tree bark "tent"
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3629.jpg
Wahintke hide scraper for braintanning (I'd like to see crash make one of these), Flint knife and buckskin sheath, and atlatl handle.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3631.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3632.jpg
Atlatl handle and changable spear tip (broken)
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3634.jpg
Mr. Diamond Brown, a very knowledgable Muscogulgi descendant
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3633.jpg
He was quick to tell me that "Little Brother of War" was not a "game"
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3639.jpg
Forgive my audacity here.. I was quite disappointed:
A bamboo / River cane / store-bought hut. Not impressive at all considering the plastic "dew cloth" and fake-a$$ "bamboo curtains" used for thatching. These guys were a bunch of posers and I have more primitive knowledge and ingenutity, as well as talent, in my little finger.. I'm a little bitter that these guys had a display set up from some fake crap, and I got pushed to the side for another year. But that's okay.. I had more opportunity to learn this way...
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3642.jpg
Dressed in their polluting Commercial Buckskin that was obviously fake in color and texture and actually felt quite heavy, and oily to the touch. I asked what they smoked it with, while dressed in my own braintan buckskin, they obviously felt a bit of humility when they were forced to admit (because they couldn't tell me what wood gave them the color) That it was fake.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3643.jpg
Enough about that... most folks there were genuine.
Tools used at the braintanning tent
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3647.jpg
and a beautiful buckskin dress made by a dainty little lady.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3650.jpg
Handmade pottery open fired and used for cooking. Full of wild edibles and some cultivated corn and a few other things from their "community garden" dried and stored for display. This was Mr. Jack Boedecker's display and we spent quite a lot of time talking about cultural aspects and history of his people. He spoke many Creek words to me, some of which I understood because of research I've done, other words only because of his hand gestures and body language.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3671.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3672.jpg
and his clan flag on braintan, hand painted with earth mineral pigments. Buzzards was the main theme.. can you spot them all?
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3673.jpg
and the way people used to fish...
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3674.jpg
If there are any questions about any of the pieces you see I'll do my best to answer. I asked lots of questions and have been studying the pics all week, remembering and meditating as much as possible on the articles, tools, and art. These things were a way of life of the people who lived where my house now stands. To hear words spoken in the native tongue of people who lived right here, yet it was so foreign to my ears.. a conundrum, if you will..
Overall the experience was very enlightening and humbling. I spent a great afternoon with as many of these people as possible and did a lot of listening to what they had to say.
Thanks for looking, and I hope these pictures inspire some of you to take up some of these projects and own the skills.
Tree bark "tent"
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3629.jpg
Wahintke hide scraper for braintanning (I'd like to see crash make one of these), Flint knife and buckskin sheath, and atlatl handle.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3631.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3632.jpg
Atlatl handle and changable spear tip (broken)
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3634.jpg
Mr. Diamond Brown, a very knowledgable Muscogulgi descendant
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3633.jpg
He was quick to tell me that "Little Brother of War" was not a "game"
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3639.jpg
Forgive my audacity here.. I was quite disappointed:
A bamboo / River cane / store-bought hut. Not impressive at all considering the plastic "dew cloth" and fake-a$$ "bamboo curtains" used for thatching. These guys were a bunch of posers and I have more primitive knowledge and ingenutity, as well as talent, in my little finger.. I'm a little bitter that these guys had a display set up from some fake crap, and I got pushed to the side for another year. But that's okay.. I had more opportunity to learn this way...
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3642.jpg
Dressed in their polluting Commercial Buckskin that was obviously fake in color and texture and actually felt quite heavy, and oily to the touch. I asked what they smoked it with, while dressed in my own braintan buckskin, they obviously felt a bit of humility when they were forced to admit (because they couldn't tell me what wood gave them the color) That it was fake.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3643.jpg
Enough about that... most folks there were genuine.
Tools used at the braintanning tent
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3647.jpg
and a beautiful buckskin dress made by a dainty little lady.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3650.jpg
Handmade pottery open fired and used for cooking. Full of wild edibles and some cultivated corn and a few other things from their "community garden" dried and stored for display. This was Mr. Jack Boedecker's display and we spent quite a lot of time talking about cultural aspects and history of his people. He spoke many Creek words to me, some of which I understood because of research I've done, other words only because of his hand gestures and body language.
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3671.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3672.jpg
and his clan flag on braintan, hand painted with earth mineral pigments. Buzzards was the main theme.. can you spot them all?
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3673.jpg
and the way people used to fish...
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg184/your_comforting_company/Chehaw%20event/DSCN3674.jpg
If there are any questions about any of the pieces you see I'll do my best to answer. I asked lots of questions and have been studying the pics all week, remembering and meditating as much as possible on the articles, tools, and art. These things were a way of life of the people who lived where my house now stands. To hear words spoken in the native tongue of people who lived right here, yet it was so foreign to my ears.. a conundrum, if you will..
Overall the experience was very enlightening and humbling. I spent a great afternoon with as many of these people as possible and did a lot of listening to what they had to say.
Thanks for looking, and I hope these pictures inspire some of you to take up some of these projects and own the skills.