My step daughter wanted to decorate my Grandson's room with artwork depicting his ancestor's heritage. Aaron's grandmother on his father's side is a full Yaqui Indian. I volunteered to research and then create some faux artifacts for his room.
The dream catchers will catch his bad dreams and they will disappear in the sunlight. The map will lead him to the tribe's home. The Dancing Mask will remind him of ceremonial dances.
Creation:
The map is on leather that I aged by burning the edges and I mounted it on a board that I "crackled" using dark brown and fawn on top. It is my interpretation of a map of the original Yaqui territory of about 1700 to 1800.
The Dream Catcher's are hand woven.
The Dancing Mask is painted and features real horse hair as an embellishment.
(No horse was harmed - my sisters horse's tail was too curly so we had to find one that was having a bad hair day....)
