Rainsticks-finishing up

I should explain a little about rain sticks, I had never heard of them until about 8 years ago when I was invited to a friends house and she had a hollowed out log, smooth, and completely preserved.It had this beautiful sound when tipped, sounded like rain. Since then I've learned a lot about constructing rain sticks, first trick is to twist aluminum foil and place inside the stick to give it a sliding sort of sound. Secondly, I opt to not use birdseed, bean and or rice as my sound maker, all to often I've had crafts in storage and found things destroyed by a unwanted hungry rodent. I stick with pebbles of the same size, for this type of stick, I used only a few.

Mostly I used beads, fish rocks work well also.

If Internet history serves me right, rain sticks were first made by the Chileans and used to affect the weather. I was comprised of a certain type of cactus (only one variety can be used) which had fallen and dried, spines were pushed inward, seeds were placed inside and the end was plugged. I can imagine a Kopei Medicine man shaking the thing over his head while chanting for rain.

My stick became a little challenging as time went on, I checked my paper birch and removed some more birch, I was hard pressed to get all white.

All in all it came out nice.

Not done yet, why I just have too...

A little flair of tribal art.....

And Madame stringing the beads. At this point she took over....

She did a good job, I wanted the green bead because they are glass, the center was too small for my crafting. She did it, stuck with it.

Remember clouds, rain and thunder?

And the water bird, sometimes mistaken for the Thunder bird, they're the same aren't they? C&G Design.