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BORN 1882 DIED MAY 28, 1974 AT AGE 92 HE WAS BORN IN RANCHO DEL DURANGO THE NEAREST TOWN WAS JEREZ, ZACATECAS MY GREAT UNCLE ON MY FATHERS SIDE GRAMMA'S BROTHER!!! PRESIDENT AT TIME OF PHOTO WAS PLUTARCO ELIAS CALLES (IN OFFICE FOR THREE YEARS) |
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My Great Uncle Romon Sanchez |
"The pipes shown in the "EARLY YEARS" were made back |
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Kenny Singleton ~ 1969 We give Kenny the credit for us starting our craft career. (Kenny passed on in 1979) |
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Trig (Left) ~~~ Vince (Center) ~~~ Jerry (Right) British Columbia - 1970 |
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Jim Buik - 1969 |
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We started our craft career in 1970... That is Vince on the left, Jodi in the center and Russ Raney on the right. (Russ passed on in 2005) |
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My friend and Brother "CHUY" Aztec Dance group from Sacramento |
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These two pipes are the first carvings I ever did.
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My friend and sister Irene Wilson Irene and her husband Law traveled with me to the Powwow for 8 years selling their drums and rattles. |
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Our biggest compliment was that most of our sales were to non-smokers who bought our work as Western and Indian art. (Bone breast plate)
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I did the pipe work and my wife Jodi made the beautiful feather fan.
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Carved bird with turkey fluff decoation
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Beautifully decorated with lotsa magic!
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One of my carved pipes.
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Decorated pipes with macaw, guinea hen and wild turkey feathers Pipes have tobacco bag hanging from stems |
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This was taken in the '70's as a publicity photo for a "HARVEST FESTIVAL" in San Francisco |
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Our First Craft Show |
Medicine bags |
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Skull pipes |
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More pipes from the '70's
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Decorated by Jodi
Rattlesnake rattle-medicine bag with beaded feather |
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Hand Pipes |
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NON-TRADITONAL PIPE: This pipe has a beaded tobacco bag that is decorated with parrot feathers. The pipe has a fringed deer skin bowl bag and the feathers are reeves and turkey fluff. The stem is decorated with otter fur. |
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