Recently, I've wanted to know more about my own American Indian heritage. I'm part Choctaw and realized I didn't know anything about the tribe. So I went to wikipedia... wonderful.

This design was inspired by a version of the Choctaw creation myth.

"Two brothers, Chata and Chicksah led the original people from a land in the far west that had ceased to prosper. The people traveled for a long time, guided by a magical pole. Each night, when the people stopped to camp, the pole was placed in the ground and in the morning the people would travel in the direction in which the pole leaned.

After traveling for an extremely long time, they finally came to a place where the pole remained upright. In this place, they laid to rest the bones of their ancestors, which they had carried in buffalo sacks from the original land in the west.

The mound grew out of that great burial."

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The stencil is a compass, stylized as a "Dreamcatcher" with the mystical pole as the N/S arrow, casting it's shadow.

Stenciled on cotton t-shirt with an airbrush.

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