Indigenous people form East Africa such as the Maasai, have been making clothing, jewelry, instruments, shoes, bags, bedding and so much more with animal skins for centuries. The art and craft of skinning and clenaing is not only cultural it's spiritually connected to traditions. Passed on traditios of perfection in making leather, the artist from Simanjiro, Tanzania, Saning'o, honors the life of the animal that gives it's life for life. We celebrate it's whole being by making beautiful things to revere its memory. Enjoy this piece blessed by hawk and falcon at the foot hills of Ngong, Kenya in Maasai land. Celebrate life with your own expression of indigenous creativity.