MEDICINE BASKETS, DRUMS, RATTLES, POUCHES
SUPPORT AN ARTIST and ELDER, BUY ART
JOHN MAHKEWA , TEWA HOPI ARTIST AND ELDER
FRANCESCA OLDANI
COLLABORATIONS 2019
FRANCESCA OLDANI
COLLABORATIONS 2019
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Back in 2017, a mutual friend introduced John Mahkewa, a Tewa Hopi Artist and Elder, and I, via email.
She wrote; “I wanted to introduce you because you both have such a special gift in common- you have come back to us from death. You were also both on deep spiritual journeys before and after. I hope you can talk by phone and someday you can meet in person. If I am not there, I look forward to hearing all about it. Please let me know if I can support your meeting in any way.” It took us 2 years, as John lives in Yuma AZ and I….well….have been driving all over the map, but we committed to meeting and have finally come to be in the same place….camped under a tree in Sebastopol. It feels a bit like we’ve taken up where we left off from another lifetime. We’ve been collaborating making drums and rattles. They’ll be posted for sale soon! With deep appreciation and love to our dear friend who has since passed, for her foresight and introduction. We honor and dedicate the fruits of our meeting to her. |
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EAGLES PRAYER MEDICINE DRUM
$180.00
Out of stock
9" Horse Medicine Drum made by Francesca Oldani,
Artwork by Tewa Hopi Artist and elder John Mahweka
Horse rawhide, acrylic paint, felt markers, watercolors, feathers, leather and copper cones.
Shipping costs usually billed separately when its known how much it costs to ship.
SOLD
SEASONAL LAVENDER WANDS
This year, 100% of the proceeds from Lavender Wand sales goes towards a DIGNITY FUND for an Elder Herbal Medicine Man in need.
Thank you for your support!
Thank you for your support!
LAVENDER WANDS 2019
This year, 100% of the proceeds from the sale of lavender wands goes towards a DIGNITY FUND for an Elder Herbal Medicine Man in need.
Thank you for your support!
These wonderfully fragrant and colorful lavender wands are woven with freshly harvested lavender generously donated by a Patron of the Sonoma Humane Society, and combinations of gifted recycled silk yarn, sweetgrass, string, rafia, and yarn.
I WILL CHOOSE FOR YOU!
MEDICINE DRUMS
sold out
sold out
MEDICINE BASKETS
The SPIRAL Series 2017
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WOW, Spiral Series 1
$450.00
This basket is made with natural and walnut dyed pine needles woven with natural rafia.
2017
5 1/2" x 3"
2017
5 1/2" x 3"
WILD, Spiral Series
$450.00
Roadkill found and tanned snake skin, repurposed yarn, braided sweetgrass, misc feathers, pine needles woven with natural rafia.
2017
6" x 4 1/2"
BEAUTIFUL DREAMER, Spiral Series
$600.00
Out of stock
Torrey and ponderosa pine needles woven with natural rafia.
2017
7" x 4 1/2"
SOLD
2017
7" x 4 1/2"
SOLD
SPIRAL SERIES 2
$800.00
Out of stock
This shallow bowl is made with natural and walnut dyed pine needles woven with walnut dyed rafia, inside and outside are coated with beeswax.
2017
12" x 3"
SOLD
2017
12" x 3"
SOLD
SPIRAL SERIES 3
$700.00
Out of stock
This bowl is made with dyed and natural Torrey Pine needles woven with artificial sinew.
Outside of bowl coated in beeswax.
2017
9 1/2" x 3"
SOLD
Outside of bowl coated in beeswax.
2017
9 1/2" x 3"
SOLD
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The SPIRAL Series 2017
The Spiral series was a deep dive and immersion. An entire season of devotion to my Spirit, nature, solitude, healing, and basket weaving. I intentionally cultivated a reciprocal relationship with the elements of wild nature in daily practice while camped on a hidden creek that became a nourishing companion and friend. It wasn’t a matter of imagining or envisioning the baskets and then creating them. As the artist, I found that the materials I gathered, worked together through me, and the baskets emerged, wowing even me. They are the result of my intimacy with the nature I was living in, the depth of intimacy with myself, my spirit and the creek. No coincidence that each of these have a spiral. Contributing factors being my study, healing and work with holographic kinetics, the holographic and fractal nature of life itself, transmuting and understanding trauma. Turning it into beauty. Into medicine. That beauty and medicine came through these baskets and I offer them to you. |
The TULE Series 2018
MEDICINE BASKETS & POUCHES
SAVAGE
$180.00
Red Cedar bark twined with linen string, agave fibers and dyed raffia. Tangled and woven in are shells, beads and a vintage button. It hangs 4" from agave cordage .
Approx 5" x 3 1/2"
Approx 5" x 3 1/2"
LOS CERRILLOS
$150.00
On the Turquoise Trail, remnants of renovations and childs play. Joy echos in the valley.
Turquoise Paint Globbed Mulch, Torrey Pine Needles, Morning Glory and other Flowers, Corn Husks from Ceremonial Corn, Feathers, Plastic Bag Shreds, Silver and Linen threads, Raffia
Approx 3" x 4"
Turquoise Paint Globbed Mulch, Torrey Pine Needles, Morning Glory and other Flowers, Corn Husks from Ceremonial Corn, Feathers, Plastic Bag Shreds, Silver and Linen threads, Raffia
Approx 3" x 4"
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GRANDMOTHER
$180.00
This wall pouch is woven with red and yellow cedar bark, a tuft of fox, and recycled sari silk yarn.
Approx 4"x6 1/2"x 1 1/2"
Approx 4"x6 1/2"x 1 1/2"
RUSTIC SOUL
$80.00
A rustic and solid little coiled Medicine Basket woven with pine needles, leather, cedar bark cordage, recycled silk sari yarn, artificial sinew.
Approx 2"x3 1/2"
Approx 2"x3 1/2"
TREE OF LIFE
$60.00
This simple tiny Cedar Bark Medicine
Basket is made with twined Cedar Bark.
Approx 1 1/2" x 1 1/2"
Basket is made with twined Cedar Bark.
Approx 1 1/2" x 1 1/2"
TALON SONG
$60.00
Gifts. Gratitude, the fulfilment of the seeds sprouting. Maturity unfolds and the winged humming of a bird drinks. Nectar pours, fields flower and gifts a new season. Before wilting the weaver collected these flower petals while meditating.
Feathers, Purple and Linen Threads Natural and Dyed. Torrey Pine Needles, Dog and Cat Fur, Blue Sweater Offerings.
Approximately 1" x 2 3/4"
Feathers, Purple and Linen Threads Natural and Dyed. Torrey Pine Needles, Dog and Cat Fur, Blue Sweater Offerings.
Approximately 1" x 2 3/4"
MEDICINE RATTLES
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The proceeds from your purchases, and donations are greatly appreciated and support me on my Medicine Path, as an Elder, Artist, Teacher and Service to Earth and Humanity.
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Most orders within the USA are shipped Priority Mail within 3 days of receiving your order with no problems. There are occasional questions and issues with shipping outside the USA. These are addressed as they come up. If you have any questions about shipping or an order, please contact me using the CONTACT page and we will find the best possible solution.
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