I have made many storytellers over the years,
Oprah and her Book Club, Coyote, Javelina and
Turtle Mothers and their offspring and little desert
friends, Indian Mothers telling the legends of their
people and African's with their story telling sticks in
hand and children all over them, listening, learning.

These figurines  below tell their own stories, one is
a shaman, a healer, passing on his knowledge to an
apprentice, teaching the young and keeping life
going in its proper direction.

I also have some Native American Singers (we call
them drummers and we are wrong) from a Pow
Wow who are working for the dancers, for the
feeling of oneness in the community, to help
everyone to move together, pray together, and to
celebrate together.

AND, they look wonderful singing Happy Birthday
on a child's cake and then later sitting in the child's
room, to remind them of everything that day.

More figurines are coming out this Fall, come back
and look for them.
He is telling the young fellow all about the stick that he is passing on to him.
The young apprentice listens raptly, trying to remember everything.
This is a view of his circle of ermines with his fox tail in back.
His necklace is turquoise and he wears cedar and sage at his waist.
Mandan
Medicine
Men
 The Apprentice
begins to collect
the fox tails, herbs,
ermine skins,
stories, songs,
traditions and
strengths of his
mentor, his
teacher, his path.
 Ermine tails circle
his waist, a fox tail
is tucked behind
him, fox tails trail
off of his
moccasins, horse
hair circles his
forehead, and a
bear pelt covers
his groin.
 He passes his smaller walking
and healing stick, from his youth,
on to his apprentice and shows
him the bigger one, the one he
now uses, telling its stories.
AG601
 8 inches tall
 Shaman
Healer
Mentor
Student
Apprentice
  
They sing for the pow wow dancers and for the community.
He will create new songs and sing them with the old songs.
He has attended pow wows and played for his people his whole life, he remembers.
He imitates everything that the men in his family do, so they are careful about what he sees them doing.
He dances to reach into his spiritual self and to save himself from bad habits.
The drums pounding can put a baby to sleep or make a young girl kick really high into the air as she dances.
Singers
Drum Set
 He wears his
hair down,
though usually
ties it up when
singing.
A blanket
warms his legs
as he sings. He
has written
some new
songs.
 This is the
older, cowboy
fellow who
remembers all
of the words
and teaches the
others the old
songs. He has
patience with
the young boy
who is learning.
 The young boy
singer
apprentice,
who plays
when his dad
plays and
wants to be a
singer when he
is older. He
can remember
many of the
words to the
songs already.
 This is the Pow
Wow dancer who
also sings. He
dresses up more
for his dancing
and plays when it
is not his turn in
the ring.
 This is the drum
set seen from
above, with the
stains of many
years of singing
on them. Some of
the other singers
are missing, but it
is their turn to
dance in the
arena.
5 separate
pieces

for
placement as

you see
them.
 For
Decorating
Cakes,
to celebrate
and
have them
sing for your
celebration.
 For a young

drummer or

singer's room.

They play for
girls and
women, too.
 Each larger
figure from 3
to 4 inches
tall and the
drum is about
3.5 to 4
inches across.
  

April's Storytellers and Figurines
Paintings for sale
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