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SP45
This was in a bunch of gun related stuff I bought. Carved from one branch with a burl knob on the end. Looks to be fairly new. Any idea what it is supposed to represent.

http://imgur.com/a/0uIJ5
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  • charliemeyer007
    Bad Clowns in the news these days. Ronald McD on a bad happy meal spike with LSD.
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  • rufe-snow
    Where are you getting your "gun related stuff"? From a Witch Doctor.
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  • beantownshootah
    quote:Originally posted by SP45
    This was in a bunch of gun related stuff I bought. Carved from one branch with a burl knob on the end. Looks to be fairly new. Any idea what it is supposed to represent.

    http://imgur.com/a/0uIJ5


    The answer is it may not "represent" anything. If you want to know, you have to ask the person who made it what they meant by it.

    Regardless, I'll take a stab at this.

    You have a staff with a serpent on one side, the Devil as the head, and (I think) a man in Native American facepaint on the other.

    To me its a clear reference to the Biblical story of the garden of Eden, where a serpent, tempts Eve and leads to the fall of Man. The tie-in is that many believe the serpent was the Devil (Satan) in serpent form.

    Why the Native American depiction? I don't know. Maybe the person who did this was Native American, and this is a fusion of Native American and Judeo-Christian mythology. (See here: http://www.holyblasphemy.net/jesus-and-the-coyote-similarities-between-biblical-literature-and-native-american-mythology/ )

    Maybe its a view of "original man" as Native American. Or maybe I'm completely off base. [;)]
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  • He Dog
    Someones idea of a native American holy man's staff?

    In the end, maybe it is just folk art.
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  • SP45
    Where do I get my stuff. Where ever I can find it. Like the rest of us old gun guys, we are like a vacuum and end up with everything. I to kind of thought Native American holy staff. The more I look at the top part I believe it is a buffalo.


    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Someones idea of a native American holy man's staff?

    In the end, maybe it is just folk art.
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  • armilite
    Could possibly be an Indian representation of a mythical Hodag from around Rhinelander, Wi. kinda in the middle of what was once Indian territory. Then again it might be something entirely different.
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  • pulsarnc
    Just appears to be "folk art"to me .someone had a good imagination
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  • lew07
    Heh Heh Some years ago a friend of mine bought a kind of monkey head from a second hand shop. It was damn ugly but He found it amusing for some reason. Any way after buying it He had nothing but bad luck. Car crash, illness You name it it happened to Him. He took the monkey head carved figure back to the shop told em to take it back and they could keep His money He paid them for it[:D]. And Yes no more bad luck for Him[:0]
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  • waltermoe
    Tourist trap art? Or who ever sent it to you wanted it out of his house as bad as I would want it out of my house.[:D]
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  • jetmek
    Hillary's satanic dildo
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  • NeoBlackdog
    quote:Originally posted by jetmek
    Hillary's satanic dildo

    LOL!!![:D]
    I move that this be moved to GD for further remarks!
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