This is a very large thick shelled gourd that the buffalo skull design has been dremel tooled & wood burned in. The paints are leather dyes & watered down acrylics to give it a translucent look. I have a saddle braided buckskin around the top. Really nice gourd.
Measures 10" tall and about 9" wide.
 
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