"Jester"
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Medicine bundle with large turquoise arrowhead, and various colorful shells.
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Picasso marble Coyote with inlaid turquoise eyes. | |||||||||
What is an Animal Fetish?
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Coyote SymbolismCoyote represents good work ethic, caution, healing and protection. Pueblo tribes associate Coyote with the color red and the South guardian of the six directions. |
What is a Medicine Bundle?
Many fetishes have a medicine bundle, offering bundle, or adornment tied onto
the animal that consists of turquoise nuggets, coral seed beads, shell heishi,
feathers and other stone pieces. The bundle may be an offering to the fetish,
to used evoke the spirit of the fetish or to increase the strength of a fetish. |