My Cree Drum

A beat of a thousand hearts



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It was time. Much like the Ancestors told me when it was time to get a pipestone, They have told me that it was time to receive my drum. And so, we searched online for Cree hand drum, found something on Etsy, and ordered it. Now, after having ordered it, it seems this is made in England (which seems fitting in a way, since I live here now), but as I was not actually expecting to find a drum for sale online from my actual Swampy Cree territory, and it has the appearance of a good old back-home drum, I am quite appeased. And since it is being brought into Cree, it is thus a Cree drum, so that works. Cow hide is cow hide to be real, and... yah, enough triggling on here, let's get this baby painted! And of course, the Cree Ancestors are with me for this journey as well.

So, very quickly, the design built in my head. It needed to be connected to my Spirit name, The Eagle who Flies through the Heaven, so very quickly, assisted by the Ancestors, a design came of an eagle flying above the sun, with a bear paw print on the sun, and feathers hanging down from the handle strings. For the eagle, I've had an eagle poster on my wall for ages now, and have always liked that side profile of it. It's not posing, it's not perched, it's just... flying. So I made an edge-detected version of it to print (in several sizes), from which I will use to create a line drawing of the eagle for final painting. Oh, also if you want to hear it, it immediately made it into my song-a-day (YouTube).


More to come once more happens, either I get a final line drawing of the eagle made, or painting begins, or progress is made in some way or another. Right now though, I don't want to attach the feathers until I see the painting, and the print shop is closed for the day, so wait we shall.


Finished x month and date


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