Turtle Shell Bag

[chingachgook]

Greetings ya'll

Here's a pic of my latest project. Box turtle shell bag with deer skin back and flap, white heart bead edging and red deer hair tin cones. Let me know what you think. Thanks in advance for your opinions.

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~Chingachgook

Stay the Course

 

[adkmountainken]

absolutly love it!!! turtle medicene is great power, wear it with pride!!! if ya plan on making more i would love to swing a deal with ya!
Ken

 

[16gauge]

Awesome! Great job!

Just a suggestion, though.....next time how about putting something in the photo so that we can get an idea of the relative size, such as a quarter, small ruler, dollar bill, ect. Turtles come in many sizes! ::

 

[onefeather]

i love the bag what kind of turtle shell is it very nice :front:

 

[newt]

Looks like a Map turtle or a River cooter of some type.

 

[musketman]

Very, very nice... :applause: :hatsoff:

 

[chingachgook]

Very nice addition musketman.... :crackup:

~chingach

 

[chingachgook]

One Feather,

From the research I've done, I believe it is a red ear turtle... just a guess though...

~chingach

 

[Halftail]

Yes!!,
Very nice!I agree with 16 Gauge.I would like to see it along side something to be better able to tell it's size.

 

[3 stinky dogs]

Verry nice bag ! I saw a medicne pouch made out of a small cooter shell.Did you buy your shell or get it your self ? It is certainly diffrent as you mostly see lether and beads and Hawken and Pensylvania Guns its nice to see somthing diffrent.Cool bag!

 

[Ridge]

I like it, I like it a lot! :thumbsup:

 

[chingachgook]

Halftail,

Heres another copy of the bag with scale for size... ill remember that for future posts.

~chingach

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[Halftail]

Thanks Chingachook,
Reason I asked to see what size is that I gave a friend that makes "stuff"...you know horns,Bags...things of that nature,I gave him a shell just like that yesterday.
I might tell him of this post and your pics here.
Thanks again....1/2

 

[Gary]

Neat. I bought one from an Indian when I attended a conference in Washington, D. C. The Indians were concurrently holding the S.E. Indian Tribal Conference and theirs was the more interesting of the two. I gave mine to my niece who likes turtles. She was a bit hesitant when I described it over the telephone but when she saw it, she loved it.

 

[Holley]

I haaaaaave a strange question to put on this line of site.
What is, if any, documentation of "turtle bags" being used in the "old days"?????????? Or is it just that they look good and we like to make them? :what:

 

[longshot47]

Le Serptile-
Very cool!
The folks from Gucci will be contacting you shortly.
Longshot :thumbsup:

 

[soquili]

Greetings ya'll

Here's a pic of my latest project. Box turtle shell bag with deer skin back and flap, white heart bead edging and red deer hair tin cones. Let me know what you think. Thanks in advance for your opinions.
~Chingachgook

VERY nice work, Chingachgook!
Here's one I made a few years ago, to go with my powwow regalia:

It's out of a red-eared slider turtle shell, which is what I think yours is. True box turtles are land tortoises, and have a higher domed shell and the bottom half of the shell will close up completely in front. Water turtles have fixed bottom shells, not hinged. I cut mine to make that "hinge" in back, and sewed it up with sinew, so the top closes. Mine's about 7 inches long (shell only, not counting fringe) by about 5" wide, more or less.

One of the things I simultaneously love and hate about mine, is that it's kinda hard to get your hand in and out of it - but that means you spend less money at powwows and 'voos!! :youcrazy: :crackup:
Keep up the good work!
Patsy