Butterfly Dreams Tote Bag apparel Turtle Clan)

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Potlatch Fund helps Native communities thrive so that they can continue to pass on culture

designed by Afro-Indigenous artist Mikailah Thompson (nimíipuu

35" x 35"/ 88

"There’s a misconception that plaiting is easy

Butterfly Dreams Tote Bag apparel Turtle Clan)For the Blackfeet people, butterflies bring good dreams. In his Butterfly Dreams Tote Bag, Blackfeet Piikani artist and Inspired Natives Collaborator John Isaiah Pepion has taken a classic Blackfeet butterfly design and set it free to fly across our modern tote bag. John drew inspiration from the rawhide parfleche designs of the Plains Indians. Traditional parfleche are beautifully embellished rawhide containers, decorated by painting, incising, or