F384 Double Corn Maidens
Double old style Corn Maidens by Zuni carver Lorandina Sheche. The 1 1/4” x 2 1/4” maidens have a heishe and turquoise medicine bundle.
MEDICINE BUNDLES are meant as a gift offering to the animal spirit. The bundles provide the animal spirit with energy, enhancing its powers and allowing its prayers to be heard more easily. They are carried on either the back or side of the fetish.
About the Artist
LORANDINA SHECHE is a well-known carver of old style fetishes similar to her mother's and father's carvings, Thelma and Aaron Sheche. Lorandina signs her carvings, AS, her father's initials along with her initials. There are many collectors and Zuni fetish buyers who seek Lorandina's old style, traditional badgers, eagles, bears and bow priest mountain lions. Lorandina's artistic skills and ancestery help to make her carvings very special and valuable.
