Feline Shaman's Dolls Lorena B. Moore

LIONS
Vintage stuffed toy pattern (McCall's #1223).
Face, paw pads, heart, tail, and other decorations hand-embroidered in cotton.

Rainbow Lion  2008 $425  (NOTE:  This is not a child's toy and is not recommended for children.)
Natural white silk/hemp fabric with multicolored silk/cotton/rayon yarn mane and white recycled Nepal silk yarn accents.
ORNAMENTS:  Tiny bronze shaman's mirror made from a broken Tibetan singing bowl.  Forged sterling silver earrings.
Forged iron cone bells, copper spirals, brass tube beads, antique African bronze beads.
BLANKET:  Sandwashed silk and cotton calico with iridescent glass beads.

Tibetan Snow Lion  2008 SOLD
Natural white silk/hemp with teal rayon yarn mane and white recycled Nepal silk yarn accents.
ORNAMENTS:  Tiny bronze shaman's mirror made from a broken Tibetan singing bowl.  Turquoise earrings.
Double-terminated quartz crystal at base of tail.  Forged iron tent stakes and cone bells.  Silver beads, copper wire spirals,
antique African bronze and carnelian beads.  Leather and hemp cord, glazed ceramic beads.
BLANKET:  cotton calico and Japanese dobby fabrics.

Green Lion  2006 NFS
Sage green hemp/cotton, hemp whiskers, handspun undyed Nepal recycled silk yarn mane.
ORNAMENTS:  Four forged iron coils with beads of California botryoidal jade, pink Mexican ceramic, and antique African iron.
Earrings of hot-forged sterling silver with Indian and Bali silver beads.
Woven hemp cord, copper crimps, antique tribal Russian bronze bell-shaped pendant.
The end of the tail has a tiny antique English bronze pellet bell with a white quartz pebble inside.
BLANKET:  undyed hemp/silk, hemp/cotton muslin backing, vintage 1970s cotton braid, brass beads, copper spirals.

CAT SKULL WAND carried in the Tucson All Souls Procession  NFS Domestic cat skull, forged iron handle and cone bells, black steel wire fringe, recycled silk yarn, cotton streamers (mountain lion print). BEADS:  India brass bells, copper tubes, African bronze, Nepal silver skulls, Mexican pink ceramic.