91FM Arts and Culture Reporting

In the central circle of this yarn painting, is a skeletonized shaman with his feathered power arrows held aloft. His spinal column and ribs are exposed in x-ray style as often seen in shamanic art. Surrounding the circle are deer, peyote, and rain serpents. A pair of shamans pound a drum at upper right. At lower right is the divine Mother of Peyote and above her, four of her daughter plants, their roots ending in deer.
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