Native American Ojibway Coyote Totem by Kevin and Tanner Gadomski

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Native American Ojibway Coyote Totem by Kevin and Tanner Gadomski

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Native American Ojibway Coyote Totem by Kevin and Tanner Gadomski

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This Totem Figure is a limited edition creation by Kevin Gadomski and his son Tanner. Each Totem Figure is hand signed, Dated and is a numbered edition. This is The Coyote and is number 30 of 100 of this limited edition. Tanners native heritage is from the Turtle Clan of the Grand Portage Band of the Ojibway, on his mothers side, whose grandmothers on both sides were full Anishinabe as well as his grandfather who was half Cree. Kevin and his son Tanner have signed and dated the Totem in 2011. The Coyote Totem measures approximately 23 inches tall from the base of the Totem to the top of the head feathers.

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 an animals special powers through emulating that animals behavior and characteristics. Animals have the ability to sense the changes of the world, the seasonal changes and the coming of things.

Long ago, when man was new to the world, there were days when he was the happiest creature of all. Those were the days when spring brushed across the willow tails in the sun of summer and when the goldenrod bloomed in the autumn haze. But always the mists of autumn evenings grew more chill, and the sun grew shorter. Then man saw winter moving near, and he became fearful and unhappy. Coyote had no need for fire. So he seldom concerned himself with the People in winter until one spring day when he was passing a human village. There the women were singing a song of mourning for the babies and the old ones who had died in the winter. Coyote, overhearing this, felt sorry for the People. He knew of a faraway mountain top where the three Fire Beings lived. These Beings kept fire to themselves, guarding it carefully for fear that man might somehow acquire it and become as strong as they. Coyote saw that he could do a good turn for man at the expense of these selfish Fire Beings. So Coyote went to the mountain of the Fire Beings and crept to its top, to watch the way that the Beings guarded their fire. As he came near, the Beings leaped to their feet and gazed searchingly round their camp. Their eyes glinted like bloodstones, and their hands were clawed like the talons of the great black vulture. What is that I hear?" hissed one of the Beings. "A thief, skulking in the bushes!" screeched another. The third looked more closely, and saw Coyote. "It is nothing!" she cried, and the other two looked where she pointed and also saw only a gray coyote. They sat down again by their fire and paid Coyote no more attention. Then Coyote lunged from the bushes, snatched up a glowing portion of fire, and sprang away down the mountain side. Screaming, the Fire Beings flew after him. Swift as Coyote ran, they caught up with him, and one of them reached out a clutching hand. Her fingers touched the Coyotes tail which burned Coyotes tail causing him the throw the fire. But the People had gathered at the mountains foot, in case they were needed. Coyote shouted and flung the fire away from him to the People and the People in fear threw the fire into the Wood and the Wood swallowed the fire. The Fire Beings gathered round, but they did not know how to get the fire out of Wood. They promised it gifts, sang to it and shouted at it. They twisted it and struck it and tore it with their knives. But Wood did not give up the fire. In the end, defeated, the Beings went back to their mountain top and left the People alone. But Coyote knew how to get fire out of Wood. He showed the People the trick of rubbing two dry sticks together, and the trick of spinning a sharpened stick in a hole made in another piece of wood. So man was from then on warm and safe through the killing cold of winter.

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