Happy New Year, y’all! 🥳🎉
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Legend has it they’re still there haggling.
It’s been a hot minutes since I’ve had time to draw at all, let alone draw the boys 😩👌🏽💖
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Art piece details/my head canons:
Mattie’s buckskin coat has some abalone shells with cedar wooden paddles (coast Salish design,) fringe, and some Salish wooly dog fur. His pants are a light take on ribbon pants, red for MMIWG2S and purple for solitary against femicide in Mexico.
Al’s coat has a beaded plain with hanging beads on the wings, buckskin on the arms and for the fringe, with a leather coat base and black bear fur. His belt features a copper belt clasp and small copper brims around turquoise accent pieces.
Both of their coats are winterized versions of their standard coats given to them by their grandma Maple.
They’re currently bartering over wind dried salmon (my most favourite treat.)
Wind dried salmon can only be dried in very special climates and conditions; very high up canyons with LOTS of wind, rocks to keep the heat radiating at night, and very little humidity to avoid the salmon going mouldy. The salmon was filleted, and hung to dry on drying racks for extended periods of time, and required frequent checkin’s to ensure the process and quality was good.
It takes a very skilled fisherman with access to a family spot. It can only be dried in the summer, and usually the wind dryer would dry a bunch to last through winter- having extra to sell is a privilege and light bragging right 😎