6" diameter tan Dream Catcher embellished with Green Aventurine chips and feathers. Handmade in Canada.
The dream catcher originates in Ojibwe culture as the "spider web charm", a hoop with woven string or sinew meant to replicate a spider's web, used as a protective charm for infants. The dream catcher may also include sacred items such as certain feathers or beads. Traditionally they are often hung over cradles as protection.
The story of the dream catcher is one of the most beautiful stories in Aboriginal Mythology. It is said that both good dreams and bad dreams circulate in the night air. The loop, its centre woven in a web-like pattern, allows the good dreams to pass through the web into the sleeper, but makes bad dreams become entangled in the web where they perish at the first light of dawn.
The leather used in the creation of the dream catchers is cow, goat, lamb and pigskin. All of the feathers are domestic feathers of turkeys, ducks and chickens.
