Small parfleches

Here are a few small painted parfleches .

What comes & goes & back around !

Ive been making parfleche since the age of 10. Since then I have fine tuned my skill. Surfing the internet I find things I made 20+ years ago... Long before I started taking pictures.. This box I winged a design and is probably is the 2nd box I ever made. Now it's labeled Cheyenne and has a price of triple of what I sold it as...

Parfleche Sun Visors

These 2 visors I made my boys last summer. Painted in a traditional cheyenne style.

Out with the old and in with the new

I re-traded for this on the bottom.The story goes that I made the bottom parfleche 25+ years ago, and he wanted a new parfleche wallet. So I made the top one for my used one. Now I collect my own art now !!!!!

My Venus of Willendorf.

I carved this Venus from a piece of steatite years ago. Long before a tool called dremel !!   I posed it with my sons hands. The Venus was a form of a fertility god in early man in the regions of Europe.

Homespun Ropes

I got a worm stuck in my head and well it worked... I made these at the Inlaws (thanks for letting me use there drill) over Christmas break. I took pillow ticking and calico cloth and twisted several ropes. Two pieces 28 foot long will make a 20 foot rope... 

Handforged Fish Hook Flies

I'm putting a fishing kit together here soon, got handforged hooks from my brother. I was messing around and took some red trade wool strips and wrapped it with silk thread... I never tied a fly before just looking for what a mountain man could have used...  I will post again when complete.