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Does anyone else make artifacts from their conworlds/cultures?

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Text:
akitisha pai iskivolit sho afirlafko ocha fai lana.
May you prosper and have many children.

Background:
The stakes, called zhana, are made by the bride's family the day before her wedding. The zhana are inscribed with blessings upon the newlyweds. The zhana are staked in a circle around the area in which the ceremony is to be performed. After, all of the zhana, except for the bride's father's, are gathered up and burned in a potzhou, or feast fire, where the wedding feast is cooked. The father's zhana is kept by the bride until her death, when it is buried with her.

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I once used the tea method to make some old Qatama "documents" but I never did anything with wood or metal. Your stake is very nice, may some aging would give a bit more of an "authentic" look.

I made it quite recently. (Yesterday to be exact), so its still technically a work in progress, but thank you.

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Cool. You should post another picture when it is "finished".


niha | ta maha poto ke uama opua yetane
/ˈniː.ɦa taː ˈmaː.ɦa ˈpoː.to keː ˈwaː.ma ˈoː.pʷa je.ˈtaː.ne/
cool 2sg more photo P DIST.time to.finish to.give-should

I have thought about it before, but I've only started recently. I only have access to things like birch bark; nothing fancy like reindeer horns. I'd probably screw it up anyway. I should try wood-carving though.


Edit: The stake is cool. Did you burn out the letters, or is that paint? If paint, what kind?

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It's Sharpie Marker :D

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I fucking love this and I will make these things now! :D

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I've post something like it, carved in kind of wood (but it got lost in next early morning it had been made).

I wish I was talented enough to do something like that. I've been wanting to do a book from my world (either an in-language book, or a journal by an outsider explorer writing about the culture of my con-world), but I haven't quite figured it out yet.

Trust me , I'm far from a talented artist. I picked a stick off of the ground, flattened a side with a vegetable peeler and wrote on it with sharpie marker.

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pretty scriptie

That makes me miss Serali.

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PROTO-ONURE: Jutésa coconóco ga zuntús, na en rógcag ma pohús.

I am making a fortress off clay and I might build some more models. The fortress does already look good. It is not exactly for a conworld but I would like to live in a place with more fortresses.

Your Fortresses of clay remind me of similar structures my friends and I used to make on tiny aights and sandbars in the old creeks (in our tongue, "Cricks") we frequented strange aeons ago. We crickrats used the big, smooth round cobbles for the walls, and we used slate and phyllite (we used to call it "gypsum" but it is crumbly and very sparkly, it ought to be called "elfenstone" or "elfenshale") for the roof shingles. These were no more than 3 feet high, and most were hovels no bigger than 2 feet in circumference. We plastered them together with Indian clay / Gault clay from the crick beds. They never stayed for too long because we made them during the middle of summer (mid-late July) and that was essentially thunderstorm season in the Southeastern Keystone State. We considered it a minor victory if any part of our "forts" withstood the summer rains that repeatedly flooded the creek. Furthermore, whoever built the sturdiest fort usually incurred the wrath of the others,

who would attack it like angry cyclopes hurling large wet rocks at it until it crumbled under the seige with one last gritty, sedimentary sigh. I have no photos of these stoney, clayey domes, though I do have many happy memories sloshing about in the crick while making them on those hot, steamy summer days.

I truly believe that these structures form some megalithic reflex that crops up in one's conculture repertoire!

My fortress is much smaller. It can stand on one of my hands. I know a crick where one could build a little stone fortress. People who go there would love it because it is just the right place. I don't promise to make one but I just got the idea.

Small models could be easily decorated with runes or the like.

And are certainly more transportable. Good on ya!