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I'll get to the medicine part shortly !
I went for a hike with Maisy today and kept getting a feeling that I was not alone, even Maisy kept stopping and looking as if someone or something was there !
Anyway we reached our little cave type spot....
I decided to make a fire so gathered some Fatwood and some Ceder bark.....
I had some dryer lint with me to start the fire and my freshly sharpened Bandicoot made short work of the Fatwood.....
3 strikes later and we had fire.....
Maisy still kept watch as if she could hear something !!!
After a while we set off again and this is where the medicine thing comes in, I came across this.....
Check out this guy....
I didn't know if this was good Indian medicine or Bad but I did know that I wasn't going to risk any bad by touching it so took some pics for ya and set back off again !
I do know that Ceders were one of the most valued commodities to the first nations people and I also found this info below which may explain the wooden head !!!
According to the Yuchi myth, a malevolent magician disturbed the daily course of the sun until at last two brave warriors sought him out and killed him in his cave. They cut off his head and brought it home with them to show to the people, but it continued still alive. To make it die they were advised to tie it in the topmost branches of a tree. This they did, trying one tree after another, but each morning the head was found at the foot of the tree and still alive. At last they tied it in a cedar, and there the head remained until it was dead. While the blood slowly trickling down along the trunk gave the wood its red color, and henceforth the cedar was a "medicine" tree.
I went for a hike with Maisy today and kept getting a feeling that I was not alone, even Maisy kept stopping and looking as if someone or something was there !
Anyway we reached our little cave type spot....
I decided to make a fire so gathered some Fatwood and some Ceder bark.....
I had some dryer lint with me to start the fire and my freshly sharpened Bandicoot made short work of the Fatwood.....
3 strikes later and we had fire.....
Maisy still kept watch as if she could hear something !!!
After a while we set off again and this is where the medicine thing comes in, I came across this.....
Check out this guy....
I didn't know if this was good Indian medicine or Bad but I did know that I wasn't going to risk any bad by touching it so took some pics for ya and set back off again !
I do know that Ceders were one of the most valued commodities to the first nations people and I also found this info below which may explain the wooden head !!!
According to the Yuchi myth, a malevolent magician disturbed the daily course of the sun until at last two brave warriors sought him out and killed him in his cave. They cut off his head and brought it home with them to show to the people, but it continued still alive. To make it die they were advised to tie it in the topmost branches of a tree. This they did, trying one tree after another, but each morning the head was found at the foot of the tree and still alive. At last they tied it in a cedar, and there the head remained until it was dead. While the blood slowly trickling down along the trunk gave the wood its red color, and henceforth the cedar was a "medicine" tree.
i would have definately been a little wierded out... on guard for sure...
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