Busy Beaver

This Busy Beaver is a beautiful deep rust color and was carved from catlinite. It has inlaid turquoise eyes. It was made by Marvelita Phillips from Zuni Pueblo who engraved MP on the bottom. It has the sweetest face! The tail is detailed like a beaver tail. This little beaver feels so good in the hand. More about beavers below. 

Size: .675" H x 2.5" L x .75" W

Beavers were almost hunted to extinction in North America due to the greed of the fashion industry in the 1800s.  No one probably noticed at the time, but rivers and waterways were negatively impacted by the loss of the beavers. Now, beavers are returning to damaged waterways and these waterways are recovering. Learn more here.

Beavers are creatures of the land and the water who have devised a way to birth their babies under water but still stay dry.  Put this carving where you will see it if you would like to be inspired to mobilized to action.

Traditionally, Zuni carvings are symbolically fed cornmeal.   Each Zuni fetish comes in a box with a descriptive card and a tiny bit of corn meal to tide them over until they reach you.