Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: half eye on February 07, 2013, 10:05:38 am
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Here is the latest quiver. Black Bear (got in a trade with Gsulfidge) the decoration is all made from "pre-contact" type materials. The quiver and bandolier are hair on black bear, the "rosettes" are plaited buckskin that's been stretched into the shape of a half globe with white mink tail pendants. The pendant in the middle is another rosette with a bone hair-pipe, and the carving is a buffalo leg bone (trade from ThomasH). The stiffener is split ash and the skin side of the fur is painted red (powder+ egg-white&water) the last few pics are detail close-ups.
Hope that ya like and please feel free to comment or crtique.
rich
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Another beauty,yep I would thake that one to church. :)
Pappy
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wow rich-that is sweet!
missed out on that black bear hide, but when i found out you received it,
i knew it was in a better craftspersons hands than mine.
ya did that black bear proud.
beautiful!
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That looks great rich.
The rossettes, tails and paint really set eveything off.
I like it.
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Very nice!
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I'd wear that at my wedding. Accessorized with a black tux (tails of course), white shirt and a plains style sinew backed shorty. :)
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Sweet looking quiver Rich.
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Thank you very much everybody.
Pappy, thanks, means a lot cause I know you seen a lot of different ones before
Sadie, seen a lot of your stuff, mine aint any better, for sure.
Don, Your quivers are exceptional so your opinion means a lot too
PP, Your NA items are also exceptional, so thank you for the nice comment
Trapper, thank you
Matt, only you'd show up with a rig like that too yer own wedding, does your wife admitt to even knowing you? Thanks Man !!!
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Beautiful quiver. I need to go ahead and shoot a bear this year cause that quiver is slap da** beautiful.
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Very nice Rich - You're an artisan for sure ! Bob
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winner winner chicken dinner, you deserve a cold one for that one rich, beautiful, Bub
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That's very nice!
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I've been waiting to see this one Rich! It's way better than I had envisioned and I had very high expectations for it. Very nice! Josh
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Great job half eye! I sure didnt envision that skin turning out to be an awesome quiver when I had it. Excellent craftsmanship my friend. Good trade, by the way. And Zach says hello. He is loving his molly.
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Thank you again for the nice comments.
G: Glad he likes it and hope it lasts him a good while. Still think I got the good end of the deal.....thanks and tell Zach howdy.
rich
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That's awesome! I think if you came to my sunday meetin' I wouldn't be able to pay attention to the sermon.
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Wow Rich, that's a beauty!
George
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That's awesome! I think if you came to my sunday meetin' I wouldn't be able to pay attention to the sermon.
:laugh:
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Good looking quiver Rich. Damn kids still shooting your shed door full of holes I see? Id set up a camera and bust 'em red handed!
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Great quiver! Besides loving the use of bearhide (never seen that on a 'plains style' quiver) I love the black/white contrast between the fur and the decorations.
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Thanks fellas, Scowler@ the quiver is in the GreatLakes Riverine style (foot and canoe culture) where the quivers go toward the right shoulder and usually dont have a bow case (usually, some do exist but mostly not). The plains tribes, including the western Ojibwe (Bungi) were in the plains style which was over the left shoulder and usually includes a bow case and acessory pouch. It's my understanding that the plains style were done left shoulder so they could be rotated to the front and dropped over the whole body which made the arrows accessible to the right hand like in a saddle scabbard. The Eastern Ottawa, Ojibwe, Wyandot, Ho Chunck etc. usually carried thier bows in the hand.
I got the bear skin Idea from a plains style in Otis Mason's report to the Smithsonian, where he shows a Shoshoean black Bear quiver trimmed with ermine skin. Thanks for the compliment,sir.
rich
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Wow Rich,
Your functional art is always an inspiration too me.
your like the living Smithsonian Inst. ( on old joke intended ;D )
I've said this before...You need to write a book and spread the knowledge, not that you don't already, freely and at anytime.
post more
Ron
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another beauty Rich. awesome stuff
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Thanks for the correction, half eye. Learn something new every day.