Description
99.9% pure copper cuff with an engraved double-headed woodpecker on the front, with a water spider and Cherokee star engraved in it, along with two brass domes, added with cold connections using pure copper rivets. Scalloped edge along both sides.
Materials
99.9% pure copper and pure brass.
Rube Bradley Starr
Cherokee Nation
About the Artist
I'm 62 years old and didn't find art until after I was retired. I have been working copper for a little over 2 years. I really had no interest in art of any kind until I picked up my first sheet of copper, and then I saw the potential of what copper art had to offer, I enjoy portraying traditional designs and shapes in a modern way using different metals such as Brass and Silver that gives it a more contemporary feel. I do traditional work, but I feel it's important to take traditional subject matter and bring into the modern space as well. I learned of my ancestry as a young boy from my Father, and being a direct descendant of Nanyehi (Nancy) Ward, my goal has always been to make all Cherokee people smile with what I have created.
