Description
Triple copper gorget with brass accents. The top gorget contains the double-headed woodpeckers (from the Moundville site in Alabama) with two brass Cherokee stars attached with copper rivets. The middle gorget contains the water spider with her Tusti bowl for carrying the first fire, attached with copper rivets and two eagles (from the Moundsville site) in copper, also attached with copper rivets. The bottom gorget has two engraved sea turtles with a brass sun circle in the center. These are all hung on a double-link cable chain created from 16-gauge square wire and 12-gauge square wire hook.
Materials
99.9 copper sheet and rivets with pure brass accents.
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.
