This piece I chose to incise with a motif that I seen on a medicine parfleche bundle. The technique I used was to paint the rawhide then to scratch the paint layer away. I have read in my research of Plains Indian lore that Blood was used as paint. I have made other examples using blood but it's an extremely weird technique, the blood has to be collected fresh and the painting has to be done fast. I have used fresh elk and deer blood collected from my hunting kills. Although it seems like a weird paint medium it's a process. It has even been documented on petroglyphs and cave paintings.
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