Butterfly Dreams Throw Blanket Butterfly Envelopes included

Envelopes included

Gail’s design represents both the elk and its environment in traditional Coast Salish geometric weaving patterns

and the dogwood flower to represent healing and which is used to create traditional tobacco

44 cm hanging length

Colors include white and gray

Butterfly Dreams Throw Blanket Butterfly Envelopes includedFor the Blackfeet, the butterfly is the bringer of good dreams. You will often find butterflies on painted tipis and in the beadwork of Blackfeet people. Blackfeet Piikani artist and Inspired Natives Collaborator John Isaiah Pepion drew inspiration from the butterfly designs that flit across the rawhide parfleche designs of the Plains Indians. Traditional parfleche are beautifully embellished rawhide containers, decorated by painting, incising, or