| Below you will find links to images related to the skuld project, musical intruments and performances and various other object and clothing creation. Please click on title or images for flash gallery views. |
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| skuldhood - made with beaver, bison, mongolian lamb and seal furs; lightly smoke tanned deer hide; beads and quill work. |
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Farrier's Chaps – recycled from a pair of leggins made years ago with commercially tanned moosehide with a little bit of quill work on the side (my first attempt). I made these to use during a natural hoof care & trimming course I'm taking in September 2007. |
| Bison Spoon – A spoon from a bison horn. This was from my first Bison hide that I worked on. I asked Reall, the fellow that I got the raw hide from if I could also have the brains (to tan the hide with) and he said that it's too much trouble to take the brain out ... I'll just give you the whole head. ok i said. my first time tanning and I have to figure out how to get the brain out of a huge Bison Head. I managed. |
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Cedar Container – cedar bark hand twisted rope stitched together with thin cedar bark strips |
| skuldhood2 – Brown linen hood with navy wool embroidery and deer hide ties. |
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Porcupine quill hatband – 3 types of quill work worked on a piece of smoke tan moose hide. there are three quill working techniques here: Diagonal, single line and an edgeing. The feathers are eagle and blue jay, both found on the ground. |
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| Skuld Instruments – all made and conceived by Catherine Thompson. note: the link on the gallery for the gourd udu will take you back to the sonic image page.The link on the image will open up a new page so that you can stay here with the skuld images page easily. |
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fiain Cora – my own version of the west African Cora.using a large basket gourd. deer rawhide, tacks, carved pegs, bloodwood bridge with 22 strings, bloodwood crossbars, brass ring, sinew and waxed nylon binding, antler string nuts along the carved bloodwood neck, strings made from fishing line and weed wacker line. |
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fiain Basse – The idea of this instrument came from research that I had done on the medievel Basse de Flandre, It is a one string (low E double bass string) bowed drone. It has a life of it's own as do all the gourd instruments and I have played it in many pieces and recordings over the years. A deep modulating tone it never fails to intrigue anyone that hears it. |
| fiain Gourd Banjo– a long neck bottle gourd 4 string banjo. deer rawhide, tacks, viola pegs, standard banjo bridge with a bloodwood riser. bloodood linings for the pegs, guitar strings. note: the finger board is the actual gourd itself. |
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fiain Gourdudu – small bottle gourd, deer skin rawhide, tacks and beads. |
fiain deer and emu bone flutes – two flutes made from the lower leg bone of a Deer and one larger one from an Emu leg bone. Played vertically 'Shaku Hachi' style, there is no fipple type of mouth piece. 5 finger holes for the Deer and 6 holes for the Emu. The Deer flute has a sonic range iof 6-8 notes, depending on the weather, embouchure etc. The Emu flute is wider ranging but at this time of writing it has just been made and still has to finish drying and the final finger holes tuned up. The bore is simply the inside of the bone and was not drilled out at all. All 3 flutes have a beautiful haunting sound. |
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Grouped Gourds and a bone flute
have a listen to all of the gourd instruments pictured here played together – link |
| Deer hoof rattle – a rattle made with large deer hoofs and the dewclaws (the tiny ones) as well tied onto a moosehide thong. i often wear it on my foot when I play. Works in the hands as well. |
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