The two Native blankets are coming along slowly. I made another 200 buttons yesterday evening and they've all been sewn on as well. It's amazing just how many buttons it takes to go around everything on the design - there's over 500 already, and I'd never have guessed that just by looking at it. I figure I need another 150 to finish, so after breakfast it's back to button-making. The marker designs on the chamois blanket are coming along too - albeit very slowly.
The design on the button blanket is Raven. You can always differentiate Raven from the other birds; first of all he has normal ears as opposed to the curly ones the mythical birds have, and Raven is usually depicted holding a circle in his beak - which represents the sun. In many legends Raven tricks an old Chief who has the Sun hidden in a wooden box, steals it, and puts it up in the sky bringing light to the whole world. I had originally wanted all the designs on both costumes to be Eagles, but I couldn't find enough good ones to fit into the various costume parts, so ended up mixing all kinds of different animals; Beaver, Eagle, Sisutyl, and now Raven as well.
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