Copper Turtle & Bears cuff size 1.5″ x 7″

Description

Turtle is in the center and a bear on each side of this copper cuff.  size 7″ x  1.5″.

Handwrought wide repoussé and chased sterling silver turtle and bear cuff by Paul-René. Repoussé (hammered from the back to raise the relief). Chasing is the opposite of repoussé, and the two are used in conjunction to create a finished piece.  Signed with the SunriseDrum hallmark in the design.  

The 13 squares on the back of every turtle represent the 13 moons in a year of our Eastern Woodlands traditional calendar. The bear ‘Awasos’ is the one who taught the ‘Alnôbak’ or “Ordinary Humans” (Abenaki) Indigenous to North America medicine plants.   The turtle and bears are surrounded by  “double curve” or “fiddle head ferns” and other Wôbanaki medicine ‘Mide’ plant designs become canoes traveling around carrying the healing plants to help protect. The double curves and “fiddle head” medicine ‘Mide’ plant designs become canoes traveling around carrying the healing plants to help protect.   Check out other cuff designs, each is a different size and design, each a little different as they are individually made – more are being done and each takes a couple or more days to do.