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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the hut closest to the Kitchen Hut--
to ALL
: ...I am sitting in my hut, working a new hair ornament. It starts with a round piece of hide, which I have finished placing silver and turqouise studs in it, in a pattern that I have been seeing in my dreams, lately. After I am satisfied that I have gotten it right, I punch three holes in the lower part of the piece of buckskin...they are the three moons of Gor, which had been very prominent in my visions. I turn to a pouch of herlit tail feathers, and select three of them.
(21:23:09 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the hut closest to the Kitchen Hut--
to ALL
: ...The herlit tail feathers were very important to my people, the 'Yellow Knives' Tribe of the Red Savages. They were how we counted 'coup'. As I examine the several Or of feathers I had gathered, I think back on my past. Carefully packed away in my trunk was a special hair ornament, that changed as I went through this life. It was similar to this one, at least at the base, but right now it held 9 feathers. Some were attached directly to the oval piece of Kailiauk hide, others, like the ornament I was making, dangled from strips of rawhide. Three of the feathers had red circles painted on them. Only a few of my sisters had seen me wearing the 'Headress of the Nine Feathers'.
(21:30:42 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the hut closest to the Kitchen Hut--
to ALL
: ...I take my time lacing the base of the feathers to three lengths of rawhide, each of varying lengths. The tips are tightly laced against the rawhide with thread, and then soft pieces of rawhide are cut, and laced tightly around the join. I carefully pull on each one, making sure that it is secure, and have to go back and retie one. As I work, I think of my 'Life Scroll', and the addition I had made to it a hand ago.
(21:40:01 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the hut closest to the Kitchen Hut--
to ALL
: ...I purse my full lips as I reflect on my 'Life Scroll'. It was a very soft piece of kailiauk hide, that had my life story on it. Only about 1/4 of it had inscriptions and diagrams on it, starting with the pictorial of my birth, and then spiraling out in a clockwise direction. So many of the pictographs were happy...at least at the start...and then they depicted confusion...anger...hatred...and several in a row showed killing and travel. I think on the progression, and then turn back towards my work. I begin to attach the ends of the threads to the open holes in the hide, pulling the hide through...tying a tight knot...and then cutting off the excess with one of my quivas.
(21:50:04 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the hut closest to the Kitchen Hut--
to ALL
: ...I finished with the last tie, and carefully examined my new creation. I gaze on it, and. for a moment, am lost in it's meaning, and what it says to me about my recent visions. I hear a few of my sisters call out as I meditate, but their calls don't get by my conciousness. If something important happened, I would sense it. It is times like this that my sisters don't understand me, not even Kimba...but...there are things about her that I will never understand...
(22:01:19 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the hut closest to the Kitchen Hut--
to ALL
: ...I stand, after a moment...was it an ihn, an ehn, an ahn? Or was it many eons...time is very relative to we Red Savages...at times 'The Memory' is very blurred, other times it seems like we have just experienced it. I go over to my vanity, and hold the new ornament to the left side of my head, just in front of my ear. I see that it does represent where I was, right now, on my journey through my 'Life Scroll'. I briefly wondered about the size of the hide...I had cut it to it's size when I had become a woman...and wonder how many more pictographs I will paint on it. My full lips purse...at the rate that I am painting life changing events, my life may be short...but...my 'Life Scroll' was no larger, and no smaller, than the size that other maidens had made, during the last day of their 'na ii 'ees' ceremony.
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