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NN01 - Carved Moose Antler - ** Please email us if you would like a more detailed image of this item. ** - (Following Information By Stephen Church) - The Moose Antler was shed in Canada a couple years ago. I formed a group of carvers, I gave them the antler, tools, and drew out the outline of the story being told. As you can see in the below pictures beautiful works of art are the result. Tobacco is used by most tribes of Native Americans as a conduit of prayers to spiritual deities. It is by the burning of tobacco, that the prayers are carried to the heavens. Thus the medicine man (Santee Soux ), with pipe, reciting a prayer for the gods to look kindly upon the hunters of their tribe to allow them a successful hunt. I used pictures by Remington to depict the hunt. The base, or stem, of the antler is carved to depict a the bowl of the pipe, and the Remington scene of the buffalo being hunted by a Native American on horseback is seen amid the smoke of the burning tobacco.
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