For Christmas I told my wife I wanted to start to learn to make items like this and learn metalsmithing. I started out small, I have made a lot of small pieces, turtles, trade crosses, pendants etc. I also have gotten into leather working and trying out beadwork which has been slow going, still trying to get into quillwork. There's not too many Haudenosaunee (my family is Akwesasne Mohawk) where I am really that do a lot of that type of work. Next month I'm taking a class on how to do center seam moccasins.