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NaturePunk — Red Coyote Skin Headdress

Published: 2011-01-08 09:17:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 3801; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 1007
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Description Needed a photoshoot to show the quality of work I use while creating animal skin headdresses. So here's a photo that my boyfriend Jake took (edited by me). That's me wearing my Halloween costume - a headdress made from a coywolf skin. Poor animal was eating sheep, so the Fish and Game Department gave authorization to cull it.

While a normal coyote is only about 45" from nose to tip of the tail, this sucker was 68". And his fur is an appropriate shade of pumpkin orange! I have since noticed that most coyotes with this coloration are on the larger size, meaning that it's probably got something to do with their genetics, but it's hard to say.

I can create headdresses such as this from just about any tanned fur you hand me. Bobcat, wolf, mountain lion, bear, African black-backed jackal....you name it, I'll do it (so long as it's legal, of course!).
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Featherologist [2011-01-10 17:45:04 +0000 UTC]

Those owl feathers are beautiful Where'd you get them?

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NaturePunk In reply to Featherologist [2011-01-10 19:34:16 +0000 UTC]

Found these on my friend's farm where I get all my feathers. I didn't know they were owl at the time (I thought they were from one her domestic turkeys), and it would have been illegal to keep them, so I donated them to the University's biology department.

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Featherologist In reply to NaturePunk [2011-01-11 16:38:44 +0000 UTC]

Awee it's a shame you couldn't keep them. Still, it must be amazing to have owls close by! Typical, places like here where they're legal to keep, I can never find any...

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NaturePunk In reply to Featherologist [2011-01-11 17:00:32 +0000 UTC]

We hear the owls at night sometimes. But I never saw the one whose feathers these came from. We found them right near the turkeys' safe house, so it took me a while to realize they were even from an owl. I noticed the difference when I felt how soft the owl feathers are compared to turkey. It's amazing.

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Majiran [2011-01-10 00:37:55 +0000 UTC]

It's funny that you mentioned African black-backed jackal, I've actually got that on my menu! I've been wanting a headdress of my own for a long time but I'm really tall so my options are limited to bear, puma or wolf- and bears and pumas are illegal in my state. XP I've resigned myself to using something smaller until I'm good enough to maybe make a wolf one.

Anyway, I have to say thanks for posting these, I love looking at headdresses as inspiration and to try to figure out how to do my own.

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NaturePunk In reply to Majiran [2011-01-10 01:11:29 +0000 UTC]

Which state are you in? Some states will allow you to have a pelt from an otherwise-illegal animal if it's strictly for personal use (as in, you don't intend to sell it). But you have to be able to prove that it came from a different state.

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Majiran In reply to NaturePunk [2011-01-10 02:06:22 +0000 UTC]

I live in Florida, black bears and pumas are illegal because they're lookalike species to our protected black bears and panthers, so I'm not sure how that would figure in (for instance I know in California you can do what you mentioned with wolf skins, but they aren't lookalikes to anything there.)

Grizzly bears, African lions, Arctic wolves...there are other large mammals that I could legally get a skin of, but they're way beyond my means unless I get really lucky.

There is another aspect that plays into how I discriminate in what I bring into my collections- I have to consider the fact that at any moment I might have to sell everything I own and leave. Not to be dramatic, it's just something I need to keep in mind, haha.

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NaturePunk In reply to Majiran [2011-01-10 07:17:03 +0000 UTC]

Ah-ha. Yes, that makes sense. Shame it has to be that way, though.

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wolfofsecrets [2011-01-09 03:38:30 +0000 UTC]

Vury nice. Oh and is that a red fabric I see on the inside of the hide?

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NaturePunk In reply to wolfofsecrets [2011-01-09 07:46:41 +0000 UTC]

Yes, it is! Sewed it on by hand. Took a long time, but it turned out quite nice.

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wolfofsecrets In reply to NaturePunk [2011-01-09 17:44:01 +0000 UTC]

Cool. What kind of Fabric is it?

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NaturePunk In reply to wolfofsecrets [2011-01-09 21:23:15 +0000 UTC]

It's an all-natural 100% recycled felt. Feels nice on your shoulders and does a great job of protecting the leather from damage during wear.

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wolfofsecrets In reply to NaturePunk [2011-01-10 04:28:54 +0000 UTC]

Cool.

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aztecwolves [2011-01-08 19:15:37 +0000 UTC]

that is so cool! neat work you do

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Ebonenee [2011-01-08 09:20:19 +0000 UTC]

I SEE YOU WEARING LION DEWCLAW
So pretty

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NaturePunk In reply to Ebonenee [2011-01-08 09:29:34 +0000 UTC]

Yep!

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