Ojibway Native American Skunk Totem by Gadomski

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Ojibway Native American Skunk Totem by Gadomski

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Ojibway Native American Skunk Totem by Gadomski

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This Totem Figure is a limited edition creation by Shawn and Kevin Gadomski. Each Totem Figure is hand signed, Dated and is a numbered edition. This is The Skunk and is number 33 of 100 of this limited edition. Shawn and Kevin have signed and dated the Totem in December 2007. The Skunk Totem measures approximately 19 1/2 inches tall from the base of the Totem to the top of The Skunk. Shawn Gadomski is from the Turtle Clan of the Grand Portage Band of the Ojibway Indian Reservation. Shawn�s Great-Great Grandmothers on both sides were Anishinabe from the Grand Portage Reservation. Her Great-Great Grandfather was half Cree. Her mother is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe from the Grand Portage Reservation.

The Ojibway believe every animal has its own individual fits and unique talents and power. Animals were chosen as personal totems by one who hoped to gain aan animal�s special powers through emulating that animal�s behavior and characteristics. Animals have the ability to sense the changes of the world, the seasonal changes and the coming of things.

The Skunk is regarded as resourceful. The nature of this animal is to find and use what is available for survival. The design on The Skunk is a traditional Ojibway floral design. The Skunk has a birch bark basket used to collect the wild plants that will make him strong and provide protection to live and to hunt.

Legend of the Skunk� why The Skunk as a scent � The skunk was once a larger animal than he is now - he was as large as a hill. But he became smaller and smaller and this caused him to worry. "If I grow smaller and smaller," he said, "I will lose my strength. Then how can I hunt, and kill my game, and make my living?" And so he thought and thought. "I know," he said. "I will make a strong hunting medicine which will give me skill even when I am not so large as now." He hunted and hunted to find all the plants as he could grasp in his hand, he took them home. He ground them up very, very fine, like a powder. Then, when this medicine was all prepared, he placed it in a little pouch that he carried with him wherever he went. Then he said, "I will test my medicine against the biggest, strongest thing I can find." He looked around, and there he saw a large oak tree; nothing could be bigger or stronger than this tree, and decided to test his medicine against it. He took some powder out of his pouch - only a pinch of the powder was needed - and put it in some water, and drank it. Then, to make still more powerful medicine, he sang, "Who is going out hunting, for I go out to hunt?" Then the skunk shot at the oak tree - not with an arrow, but with this medicine, a foul-smelling liquid - and the tree shrank away and died, and looked as if it were burned. Nothing was left but a pile of ashes. The hunting medicine made by that skunk is the same as the skunk carries today., a foul-smelling liquid - and the tree shrank away and died, and looked as if it were burned. Nothing was left but a pile of ashes. The hunting medicine made by that skunk is the same as the skunk carries today.

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