#turtle back

Your blue thread

Your sun-weave thread

Your mud thread

Your mica thread

Your tenzontle net

Your fire smoke braid

Your water serpent net

Your falls below thread

Your smoke hairs

Grass braid

Tender corn braid

Maguey needle thread

A tight braid

A firm net to catch

Red healing hoops

To thread through the story

And wrap around

Turtle's Back

- from Patrisia Gonzales's 'Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing

16 in. Tiffany Studios Inverted Turtle Back Hall Lamp. 16 in. dia. shade has a fiery amber & yellow geometric brick pattern with a 2.5 in. dia. gold iridescent chunk glass turtle back panel in the center. The 0.5 in. thick bronze top rim has bronze hooks for hanging and candle light sockets angled in and pointing down into the shade; signed Tiffany Studios New York, shade measures 5 in. high. Shade is missing its hanging hardware and 3 hanging hooks in the rim

T-U-R-T-L-E-B-A-C-K-S, Oh yes, Oh yes, Turtles are the best! What!

T-U-R-T-L-E-B-A-C-K-S, Oh yes, Oh yes, Turtles are the best! What!