This talking stick is made using real white tail deer antler, deerskin leather, pheasant feathers, rabbit fur, glass beads, and trade cloth.
This talking stick is made using a mix of local and imported components by Ramon Mitten (Six Nations, Seneca band 1503), an Iroquois artist living on the Tonawanda Reservation in upstate New York.
Ramon and his wife Karen have been active artists working closely with Chichester for the past two decades.
Each talking stick comes with a card:
IROQUOIS TALKING STICK
The Talking Stick has been used by many different tribes in order to give the speaker the power to talk freely and to have an attentive audience. Whoever held the talking stick could talk without interruption and whatever was said by the person holding the talking stick could not be repeated outside of the circle.
This talking stick was made with pride in the USA by Ramon Mitten, Seneca Band, Six Nations.