Native American Affinities

My affinity for Native American culture comes from having had an early personal relationship with Mother Nature. As a child of the 60's growing up in the South, my gang and I were benefactors of temperate year-round weather and mothers that frowned upon indoor activites on days it didn't pour down rain.

The majority of our young years were lived outdoors. Playing, exploring, observing and soaking up life-lessons as only Mother Nature can teach them. In seasons and in cycles, we came to understand the concepts of interdependence, responsibility, cooperation, the virtue of patience and so much more.

Aztec Indians Parrot Feathers Jewelry & Jimmy Buffett ??

Parrot feathers were a valuable commodity for the ancient Aztecs of Mexico. Some say a portion of the legendary wealth of the Aztec people was attained via trade with the Indians of North America and other regions who were willing to pay a premium in trade to get the large, brightly colored feathers of the many indigenous species of macaws and other parrots. These were highly sought after for use in ceremonial regalia.

Traditional Aztec regalia included earrings made of Parrot feathers

Parrot Feather Jewelry

Serendipitious to have found a way to combine my dreamcatchers with two other equally-favorite things in the whole-wide world; Jimmy Buffett music and parrots!Wouldn't you say?

About Cyna Unltd - from rocks to dreamcatchers & beyond

I credit my fiancee', Mark's, obsession with "rocks" (any and all formations of them!) with my initial introduction to Native American Dreamcatchers. Well, actually, it was the hours I spent pouring over his voluminous, ever-handy collection of reference materials about *rocks as he "carefully" hunted for and collected them that first piqued my interest. The Native American legends peppered throughout the literature formed the idea-seeds that would eventually become Cyna Unltd (pronounced sin-ya) Art Deco Dreamcatchers & Jewelry, a bona-fide commercial venture.

Our first website was launched in 2003 with dreamcatchers as our sole merchandise. In 2004, I added the jewelry section and later the same year, a sampling of Mark's cedar root Wizard Staffs and walking sticks to the Site. The Woodwork drew enough interest that by the end of the year it became clear we were going to need a second website dedicated to Mark's woodworks. Visit Chigoe Creek Staffs (formerly Cyna Woodworks) online @ www.cynastaffs.com.

*The "rocks" turned out to be genuine Indian artifacts. Possibly relics of the same Indigenous People who cut the original foot-path for what's now known as The William Bartram Trail. The area was once a bustling settlement of Creek and Cherokee Indians.

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