Shell gorget necklace #8956B

 

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ITEM # SIZE ft.& in. DESCRIPTION, APPROX. AGE PRICE US$
#8956B 2  3/4" Shell gorget, hand carved on antique shell, 20thC jewelry in an antique Southeast design, sold as an example of Folk Art, strung on a leather thong, four woodpeckers surround a sun circle, the woodpecker is the incarnation of "Wild Boy" in Southeast mythology, anyone who has heard the laughing cackle of a large woodpecker as if fleets through the forest has heard Wild Boy's call $145.00

The artist has faithfully carved the image of the woodpecker on the convex side of the shell, this is the way antique

gorget images were carved, all other images were carved on the shiny concave side of the shell.

In Cherokee lore, Selu "Corn-Mother", was bathing in a stream. Her menstrual blood washed downstream, and

 Wild Boy was conceived. He was raised in the forest without human contact, and this is why he is wild. When Selu

caught him and made him live in the house, she and her husband Kana'ti, called him I'nage-utasun hi, (He who grew up wild).