Plains Indian DREAM CATCHER Peace Pipe Medicine Wheel 0477-NC
The circle of life. It symbolizes the inseparable unity of the past, present and future. The unity is a circle that binds all people. A leather wrapped 12" Medicine Wheel with a 2-1/2" Dream Catcher, a central 4-1/2" four corners wheel, a 13" Peace Pipe, two 26" crossed arrows and a leather medicine bag. Praying for guidance and instructions from the spirits decided the contents of a medicine bag. The objects seen in a vision also formed the contents of a medicine bundle, the portable collection of holy things that he carried to renew his spiritual power. A reproduced artifact of yester year. This artifact was made just down the street from our trading post by some good friends of Richard's. Don't let these artifacts pass you by!!!Antler:------- Growth*Beads:--------To honor the earth mother*Feathers:---- Spiritual communication. The objects man makes are called artifacts, and every artifact, whether it is beautiful or ugly, crude or refined, utilitarian or ceremonial, is a reflection and product of man's skills, his techniques, his arts. Artifacts reflect the ideas, the concepts, and the knowledge acquired or learned as a member of a tribe. Members of a particular tribe use certain techniques, and create a particular style because that is their tradition. |