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Linda,
You bet your buns I’m in! I’m sorry it took me so long to get back to this. After I e-mailed you about it, I just sort of got side tracked. I saw the first photo before, infact, I nicked it off a meuseum site last winter!:D And I think that anything that represents our ancestors in their own light should be what we use. I love the second photo. I think this, or as close to this as possible would be absolutely excellent! I don’t recall now, whether or not this was from the Lake Gaston dig or not. Well, at any rate, COUNT ME IN!!! And thank you! Lynella.
Yes, this is a piece found at Gaston. I think what I’ll do is just get his contacting info, and either post it here, or send it privately, depending on what he wants, and we can all just deal with him directly. I’ll go scare up his email now.
I just heard from the shell carver, he’s done a sketch of the carving. I think it’s very good, my only suggestion is that the design fill more of the shell, in other words, the outer ring of triangle goes all the way out to the rim of the shell. He also wants to know if he should use a marine shell. I say yes, though I can try asking the archeologist I know if that can be confirmed. If this information isn’t readily available, maybe we could go on the theory that it would be made on the shell of a mussel that would live in the Roanoke.
Once we get settled on the design, I think it will probably be best if we all just order direct from the artist. I’ll ask him how he accepts payment.
Linda,
Oh yes, I think you are right, it should cover closer to the edges. I don’t know much about shells, so what ever you think is good sounds great to me. Thank you so much for getting this together. Lynella.
Here is our artist’s, Grady Smith’s, first draft. I love it. We’re thinking about putting it on a 2″ disk instead of 1.5″, and I’m thinking the inner ring of triangles should appear to be sitting on the middle circle. On the artifact, they look like little huts sitting on a plane together. On this, it’s resembling more of a sunburst.
He had some very interesting musings as he was deep into this design.
im no archaeologist, (like they know anything other than dating ancient items) but it looking at this design reminds me of the blowhole of the universe. of course there are normally 4 direction coming out of that, but in Creek belief the blowhole is in the pleiades. a star, a sun, “perhaps” this could be a piece showing where the master of breath breathed life into the world.
His site is at http://www.creekcarver.com. Please check it out.
BTW, I need to make a correction. The artifact we are basing this on was found in Hillsborough. The triangle motif is the same as on a Gaston pipe. The location of Hillsborough doesn’t change anything for me. Our people were wandering back and forth from those two locales regularly. It’s all the same.
Linda,
Oh, this is going to be very awsome! I think you are right, the inner triagles should be “on” the inner circle. They would appear more like teepees. Bigger could be better??????;) Love & Light, Lynella.
I think this is our final draft:
I love it. If this looks good to you all, I say let’s start putting in our orders.
We’ve tried to stay true to the artifacts, while producing something practical and wearable. This disc is 2″ round, apparently smaller than the original, making it necessary to sacrifice some of the dots. I’m comfortable with this. If it were precise to the original, I’d tend to feel it might be too sacred for everyday wear. If that makes any sense. It would also likely be too heavy to wear very long
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