How long can I tie the making of gourd art to daily events you ask? Hell, I dunno.
Today is gourdsgiving day really. That is more appropriate. See the American Indians were using gourds for 100s of years before those nasally English folks came over here whining about "religious freedom" and killing off my ancestors with their filthy diseases and enslaving them just cuz, well they were largely English and English people used to be all up their own asses about being the boss of like, everybody, worldwide. Gawd I hate Eurotrash (I am nearly half American Indian but not Wampanoag like the tribe that was actually aiding the capillary deficient, belief-disabled Euro freaks). Anyway, due to having hard skinned gourds, the pasty English people were able to have vessels for water and other stuff, like medicines needed cuz they were all so flippin disease ridden.
The closest thing to a gourd eaten at that "first" feast in 1621 was squash, which is also something the Indians turned the Pilgrims on to. Other Indian gifts worth mentioning: tobacco and peyote. Hey, don't turn your nose up OK? Your fundamental, fuk thru the hole in the sheets, Puritan, chastity belt wearin, slave ownin forebears from across the Atlantic were already in the habit of eating with their hands like cavemen, so, a little peyote in the gourd pipe was an improvement. Plus, I am sure the Wampanoag were all like "these brothas need to R-E-L-A-X!"
Some claim that the 1621 gig was all ad hoc and whatnot, but that the REAL "first" Thanksgiving occurred right here in this great state of Texas over in El Paso when the Don Juan de Onate took official possession of that area near New Mexico. I am in Texas and I grow and sculpt gourds which brings us full circle back to the mighty gourd.
So Happy Gourdsgiving! Hope you don't choke on your turkey! Wishing you pleasant peyote dreams/astral projections!
Today is gourdsgiving day really. That is more appropriate. See the American Indians were using gourds for 100s of years before those nasally English folks came over here whining about "religious freedom" and killing off my ancestors with their filthy diseases and enslaving them just cuz, well they were largely English and English people used to be all up their own asses about being the boss of like, everybody, worldwide. Gawd I hate Eurotrash (I am nearly half American Indian but not Wampanoag like the tribe that was actually aiding the capillary deficient, belief-disabled Euro freaks). Anyway, due to having hard skinned gourds, the pasty English people were able to have vessels for water and other stuff, like medicines needed cuz they were all so flippin disease ridden.
The closest thing to a gourd eaten at that "first" feast in 1621 was squash, which is also something the Indians turned the Pilgrims on to. Other Indian gifts worth mentioning: tobacco and peyote. Hey, don't turn your nose up OK? Your fundamental, fuk thru the hole in the sheets, Puritan, chastity belt wearin, slave ownin forebears from across the Atlantic were already in the habit of eating with their hands like cavemen, so, a little peyote in the gourd pipe was an improvement. Plus, I am sure the Wampanoag were all like "these brothas need to R-E-L-A-X!"
Some claim that the 1621 gig was all ad hoc and whatnot, but that the REAL "first" Thanksgiving occurred right here in this great state of Texas over in El Paso when the Don Juan de Onate took official possession of that area near New Mexico. I am in Texas and I grow and sculpt gourds which brings us full circle back to the mighty gourd.
So Happy Gourdsgiving! Hope you don't choke on your turkey! Wishing you pleasant peyote dreams/astral projections!
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