This is the third of five pictures of this project.
This is quite possibly one of the nicest things I've made in a while. I started with a large old wolf skull and added some gravel to the brain cavity after plugging the holes with clay and adhesive. I used a dowel rod as the handle, and wrapped it in a wolf legskin with claws. I added another strip of wolf fur to where the handle and skull meet, and tied a binch of leather strips to both ends of the handle, with glass bead accents on some of them. Finally, I glued a piece of leather from a coat with stitching around the edges and a red stone cabochon to the forehead of the skull. This is a big rattle, fully 24" long! It's heavier toward the skull, and so the balance feels nicer holding the handle closer to the skull. The rattle has a nice sound, but not too loud, so it would be good for both indoor and outdoor work. I know this rattle isn't for me to keep, but it's tempting!
This rattle is sold, but I am open to custom work, and I also have other rattles and goodies on my Etsy shop: [link]
This is quite possibly one of the nicest things I've made in a while. I started with a large old wolf skull and added some gravel to the brain cavity after plugging the holes with clay and adhesive. I used a dowel rod as the handle, and wrapped it in a wolf legskin with claws. I added another strip of wolf fur to where the handle and skull meet, and tied a binch of leather strips to both ends of the handle, with glass bead accents on some of them. Finally, I glued a piece of leather from a coat with stitching around the edges and a red stone cabochon to the forehead of the skull. This is a big rattle, fully 24" long! It's heavier toward the skull, and so the balance feels nicer holding the handle closer to the skull. The rattle has a nice sound, but not too loud, so it would be good for both indoor and outdoor work. I know this rattle isn't for me to keep, but it's tempting!
This rattle is sold, but I am open to custom work, and I also have other rattles and goodies on my Etsy shop: [link]
I am sorry, all the items you have asked about are sold. Also I do not have the permits necessary to ship wildlife parts outside of the United States. My apologies.
I think it is wrong and sick to use an y part of a wolf for profit. This is an awful thing to sell.
Do you eat meat or fish? Do you grow your own vegetables instead of eating those commercially grown and harvested by large machines that routinely chop up rodents, birds, insects and other animals in their path? Is all your produce organic, or do you eat fruit and vegetables grown with chemical pesticides that kill not just insects but birds and other wildlife, and chemical fertilizers that wash into the ocean and cause dead zones that suffocate fish and other sea dwelling beings? Have you ever eaten gelatin, which is made from horse and cow hooves?
Before you go criticizing me for my art and the reclaiming of animal remains that I do, look to your own habits and the harm they cause. And then ask questions; don't make assumptions. You haven't even asked me where this skull came from.
Before you go criticizing me for my art and the reclaiming of animal remains that I do, look to your own habits and the harm they cause. And then ask questions; don't make assumptions. You haven't even asked me where this skull came from.
YES YES YES.
this is something new. i've never seen anything like this ever on DA. i like it. great job on it.
i like the black one as well. you've got quite a talent
This is probably one of the coolest things I have ever seen, almost reminds me of something a witch doctor would use haha great job!
The skull came from a subsistence trapper in Alaska, who lives out in the wilderness and basically traps for a living. The leg is also from Alaska, though I don't know the exact origin.
Hmmmn, interesting, no I think the specimen I have has skeletal differences, it is a bulldog skull, so that may explain a few things.
i think that it's terrible!
animals are wonderful when they are ALIVE!
shame on you since you have played with someone else's life.
this is not a game how can't you understand it?
that's not a form of art, just cruelty..
you haven't caught the true essence of wolves because a dead wolf has lost all his majesty and strenght.
don't be so selfish and narrowminded, please think about the meaning of what you had done.
animals are wonderful when they are ALIVE!
shame on you since you have played with someone else's life.
this is not a game how can't you understand it?
that's not a form of art, just cruelty..
you haven't caught the true essence of wolves because a dead wolf has lost all his majesty and strenght.
don't be so selfish and narrowminded, please think about the meaning of what you had done.
Okay. May I ask you what actual effect you expected this comment to have? Do you think guilt really makes people change for any other reason than to please others? Did you think that I haven't considered any of the effects of my work?
Had you taken the time to do more than leave a scathing comment on my work, you might have run across my journal, and perhaps made it back to this post, where I link to writing I did recently about the ethics of animal parts: [link]
Had you taken the time to do more than leave a scathing comment on my work, you might have run across my journal, and perhaps made it back to this post, where I link to writing I did recently about the ethics of animal parts: [link]
epp is it real if it is how dare you my fav animal is a wolf and i do not reconmend on killing them
sorry i knwo this is serious and i like it alot but i have to say this
Run Whitefang Run! they may come for you next!
Run Whitefang Run! they may come for you next!
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