Octogenarian Glenn Lewis renders a touching scene of dolphins swimming around a gourd rattle, entitled, "Dolphin Spirit Rattle"
Length: 7-inches, about 20-inches with decorations; 10-inch circumference
Decorations:
Lightning Wood and Copper beads
Soft bunched yarn with suede lacing handle
Three Hummingbird images painted around the rattle
 
Sold only in America.
 
About This Limited Edition Collection: 
 
(Also learn more by watching the video on this page and/or by reading "Bob's Observations" in the column at right.)
 
This is the second quartet of handmade, hand-painted rattles offered for this exclusive limited collection. Others will be added in the future.
 
It didn't require much convincing when retired artist Glenn Lewis was presented with the opportunity to "un-retire" so he could paint a limited number of sacred gourd rattles. "I thought I had painted on about every possible medium available to me during the past 65-plus years," he said, "from countless canvases to huge murals, and on glass, brick, stucco, metal, wood, drywall, hundreds of Bob's special drums and more, but never on a sacred gourd rattle. I was honored and especially excited for an opportunity to interpret and express my deep appreciation of Spirit animals and the deeply moving language, sometimes encoded, that is transmitted by such meaningful beings and spiritual symbols."
 
Each of the rattles in this Collection is unique, a one-of-a-kind, impossible to duplicate. Each is beautifully shaped as it was when picked from the garden. Each is hand-painted by artist Glenn Lewis, and Bob decorates each too. This goes deeper than shape, paint or decoration however.
 
These rattles have their very own voices that result from the separation of the original seedpods within their very shells. Thus, the more one shakes a gourd like this, the more seeds separate and the more varied becomes the rattle's voice. Now that's one-of-a-kind for certain!