Materials: Honeycomb Calicite & Tigereye
Size: 5" x 1.5" x 2.5"
This Zuni Fetish has been created by Zuni Puebloan artist Keli'i Eli.
Throughout the past three years of carving, Keli’i truly believes that the stone chooses the artist. He has been blessed with the vision to take the stone from its raw form and with prayer and traditional techniques, is able to carve what the stone tells him it wants to be - breathing life into the stone. In most times, while carving, the stone would chip off in ways he never intended the stone to do, but this is just the stone telling him that it wants to take a different form.
Each stone is different in its raw form and in the end, not one carving is the same, making it truly unique and one of a kind.