And Now For Something Completely Different....

[mendedbowl]

the link works for me now too.

thank you Chuck. great info.

ken

[Jimbob]

As many if not most know who visit here, my first "love" is the American Frontier West of the 1800's - while guns, knives, and other sharp things and their leather gear is top of my list, I also do other types of frontier gear such as the following pipe bag and breastplate and thought ya'll might enjoy the look see........................There are a couple of WIP hawk heads included though…

While this is not an exact copy of any single existing pipe bag, it is based on/inspired by three original So. Cheyenne bags of the mid-1840's. Size of this early period pipe bag is 31" long including the fringe and 6" wide. The beads are early style pound beads and the bag body is made from brain/smoke tan deer hide that has been stained with red ocher and then the whole piece was aged to give it that used but not abused look. Included in one image is a beaded pipe tamper. Such bags began being made in the 1830's and became very popular by the 1860's and later. The haired fringe on the bag is buffalo and that on the tamper is from me own head

Just seen ur post a few ago.....very detailed and spirited work....I guess that's the right word....Spirit, u have it....the spirit of gone by days, buffalo hides and men roaming on horses across this sacred earth out west....

Love the smell of smoked hides and animal grease, tobbaco smoke and horse hair....wonder what these days felt like...I guess ur work does bring these days back....just for a moment.....nice work!!

James

The breast plate is made of bone hair pipe and is representative of those made and used post 1870, when the bone hair pipes first became widely available.

and yes I'm a BIG Monty Python fan....