Random Appropriation of the Day! (Holiday Edition)

Via Regretsy.com (one of my favorite blogs, it finds weird handmade things for sale on Etsy.com). In case you can't read it, the description says:

An original painting on leather with acrylic paint. Tracy Rose Moyers hand-crafted and hand-painted this Native American Shield. A Native American shield is based on the Warrior's shield. A good shield was believed capable of affording the bearer the protection of the Great Spirit. They frequently bore sacred feathers or symbolic pictures of animals who customarily had appeared to the owner during a vision, which thought to endow him with the qualities of the animals that were depicted.

 ...sure, ok. For those of you in warmer climes, just letting you know our dear friend Punxsutawney Phil predicted 6 more weeks of winter. Thanks, Phil. So much.

Regretsy Post: http://www.regretsy.com/2010/02/02/punxsutawney-filler/

Original Etsy page (you can buy this!): http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20934648