This medicine shield features the rare silver fox. It has a silver fox face and three jumbo silver fox tails. There is a crystal arrowhead on the nose of the fox and three abalone discs at the base of the tails.

This shield is backed with genuine buckskin and has long buckskin fringes loaded with colorfull parrot feathers and horse hair held on with black and white glass crow beads and brass cones.

This silver fox medicine shield measures 12" x 28" not counting the buckskin hanger.

This silver fox medicine shield can be shipped internationally. However, be sure to check to see if fox fur and parrot feathers can be imported to your country before ordering. We will not be responsible for items seized by customs agents.

With its brightly colored feathers, the parrot is considered a bird of the sun. The attributes of color and association with the life-giving sun are what gives it its magic. Parrot feathers can be used in prayer sticks for powerful healing rites and also to invoke the energies of the sun at any time of the year.

Because parrots are able to mimic the speech of humans, the parrot is considered a link or bridge between humans and the natural world. Parrots have a magic that can awaken a diplomacy within and enable you to understand others more effectively.

The Pueblo Indians associate parrots with the gathering of salt. Salt was a precious commodity, and the places where salt was found, were considered a gift from the sun.

Anyone with a parrot totem should study colors and their effects. The parrot can be a wonderful teacher of the power of light and color.

The fox totem represents the protector and guardian of the family.

The crystal arrowhead will remove negative energies from the surrounding area.

A disc of abalone shell is worn on the forehead of Apache girls as they greet the sun in the morning of their initiation into womanhood.

Abalone strengthens the structure of the body and the functions of the heart chakra. Abalone is intimately connected to the sea, and represents the tides of emotion. It encourages an easy flow of feelings and sensitivities to others.

Abalone is also connected to families, and particularly motherhood. Abalone brings harmony in relationships. The play and variety of colors found in the irridescent abalone shell represents change as the beauty of existence.

Not produced by a particular indian or indian tribe.