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Have you seen something that you like or a piece you must
have which is marked sold? If you would like more information about a specific
piece of gourd art and or jewelry or would like to place and order, please email me at
tjpfrank@creativeaccentsbyterry.com
I will confirm the availability and price of the artwork and the specific
shipping and handling charges.
Gourd
drums are made and used by many cultures/countries. The ones shown on this site
are made with a head of rawhide goat skin. These drums generally should be played
with bare hands. Since gourds are light, they make carrying them easy—all
do have handles or shoulder straps. They are all colored in a variety of inks and then embellished with leather, feathers,
beads, metallic leafing and/or carvings
Gourd Rainsticks
Rainsticks were used by the Indians to call upon the rain gods to bring rain
to their land. The gourd is first cut and cleaned and then stuffed with chicken wire, peas, beans, rice, etc. When rotated,
the sound produced emulates the sound of rain falling. The designs used on my rainsticks include polliwogs (one of
the first signs that the rainy season has begun), water serpents that have a lightening bolt spewing from their mouths,
and rain cloud motifs.
Gourd Rattles
Gourds have been used
as musical instruments around the world for
thousands of years. Native American
ceremonial dances often begin with a
Blessing dance to bless the arena, the
dancers, and all people. This dance may only
be performed by registered Gourd Dancers.
The ambiguity of origins of the dance may be
due to the fact that the gourd is simply a
rattle. There are many types of rattles used
by many different American Indian tribes, on
many different occasions. It is possible
that the "gourd" rattle designates a
particular social organization of the dance,
rather than simply the kind of rattle used.
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MU1
Extra Large Bottleneck Gourd Drum
Top
measures 13”. It stands about 13” and is about 13 ½” wide. The drum is colored with artprint brown ink and is embellished with leather, wood
beads, copper tubes, and feathers.
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MU5 Hoop Dancer
This drum skin measures 9 1/2" across and stands 12" tall. The drum is colored with artprint brown ink and mango ink and is embellished with leather, wooden breads, nuts, and feathers. It has multiple carved
encircling circles.
Price: $90.
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MU2 Child of Flames
Top measures 8 ¼”. It stands about 8 ½” tall. This drum is colored with black inks and is embellished with metallic leafing, carvings, and black, red, and beige leather.
Price: $70
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MU3
Medium Bottleneck Gourd Drum
Top
measures is 9”. It stands 13” tall and is 12” at its widest
part. This drum is trimmed with copper tubes and leather and colored with artprint brown ink. It is embellished with feathers and leather.
SOLD!
Email or call (520) 6153151 for Special Order
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MU4
Double Headed Drum
Top measures 11” bottom skin measures 10”. The
drum is colored with artprint brown ink and is trimmed with copper tubes and leather.
It is carved with a design. It stands 4 ½” tall.
SOLD! Email or call (520) 6153151 for Special Order.
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RS4 Water Serpent Rainstick
With
polliwogs, dragon fly, clouds with
lightening, rainbow, and water
serpent.
Price: $60
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RS3 Navajo Yei
Rainstick
AWARD WINNER!
One of the holy People of Navajo
religion, Niltsi, Wind yei has a
cloud cap, cloud symbols in one
hand, a feather for creating the
wind in the other and lightning in
his body). It also has two
kokopellis, four polliwogs, and two
sets of rain clouds with lightning.
SOLD! Email or call (520) 6153151 for Special Order.
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RS2 Indian Symbols Rainstick
This gourd rainstick was
first cut apart and filled with rice, beans, and BBs (to emulate the sound of falling rain) and then reattached and was banded
with a clay sleeve. It was then pyroengraved and colored with oil paints, inks, and acrylic paints. I then made faux
turquoise cabochons and small balls to embellish the clay band and the eyes of the figures. Beads and leather adorn
the top of the rainstick. The figures pyroengraved in the rainstick include pollywogs, a water serpent, a lizard,
and a Navajo Yei (one of the holy people of the Navajo religion) If you want to hang the rainstick, simple drill
a small hole all the way through the gourd near the top and insert a leather tie.
SOLD!
Email or call (520) 6153151 for Special Order.
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This Indian Rainstick was wood burned and then colored with inks; The polliwogs
are colored with black ink; the rainbows are hunter green and red inks; the rain clouds are colored with offwhite acrylic
paint. The designs above the leather band are meant to compliment the lower part of the rainstick. Measures approximately
24" long. The base is included
SOLD!
Email or call (520) 6153151 for Special Order.
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The decorations on this rattle include
a jackrabbit, bear claw, and bear. It is trimmed with feathers, beads and leather. It is approximately 16" long and no more than 4" high.
SOLD!
Email or call (520) 6153151 for Special Order.
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