Horse-Human Relationship Program

Genuine Navajo hand-crafted jewelry. Sterling silver and Australian opal (inlaid with sterling silver) pendant of a galloping horse, on a 24″ silver chain. Pendant is 2 1/2″x 1 1/2″ and can also be worn as a pin. Donated by an anonymous Native American artist. New!

$250.00 (retail $475) plus $15.00 shipping and insurance.

Extraordinary hand-made Navajo earrings with prancing horses. Sterling silver and malachite inlaid with silver. Donated by an anonymous Native American artist. New!

$100.00 (retail $225) plus $10.00 shipping and insurance.

Brilliant Australian opals set in sterling silver Navajo earrings, hand-crafted. Length is approximately 1 1/2″ without hook. Donated by an anonymous Native American artist. New!

$125.00 (Retail $300) plus $10.00 shipping.

Tapestry Board member and Native artist Lori Lambert (Abenaki, Mik’maq) has created a unique and limited line of Abenaki Arts earrings honoring the American mustang, and has donated them to Tapestry Institute for our autumn 2009 funding campaign. Each earring includes a beautifully carved fetish figure of a mustang with other lovely stones. This pair suggests the mustangs’ greatness of heart and purity of soul.

$25.00 plus $3.00 shipping.

Tapestry Board member and Native artist Lori Lambert (Abenaki, Mik’maq) has created a unique and limited line of Abenaki Arts earrings honoring the American mustang, and has donated them to Tapestry Institute for our autumn 2009 funding campaign. Each earring includes a beautifully carved fetish figure of a mustang with other lovely stones. This pair commemorates the great mustangs of the Cheyenne people, a people among whom Lori has many relatives.

$25.00 plus $3.00 shipping.

Tapestry Board member and Native artist Lori Lambert (Abenaki, Mik’maq) has created a unique and limited line of Abenaki Arts earrings honoring the American mustang, and has donated them to Tapestry Institute for our autumn 2009 funding campaign. Each earring includes a beautifully carved fetish figure of a mustang with other lovely stones.

Rosie was a BLM mustang with an extraordinary long mane and a tail that swept the ground as her hooves skimmed across Sowbelly Canyon’s grass. Rosie was part of the Mustang Freedom Project, our early attempt to establish a truly wild but fenced-in herd of mustangs by taking unadoptable mustangs older than 10, otherwise doomed to live out their lives in muddy, bare pens. Kaylee and Pierce Brosnan understood the vision we had in a way no one else did. They funded the initiation of the Project that paid the BLM for 3 mustangs considered “not gentleable” and paid a hauler to bring them to Sowbelly. The Brosnans sponsored one horse and named her Rosie, after her beautiful red-chestnut coat.

Both Rosie and an older mare foaled in the spring, and the small herd of 5 weathered our catastrophic wildfire easily. But as winter approached, with burned pastures not really regrown and canyon roads slick with ash and mud after the onslaught of salvage loggers, we knew we couldn’t hay them regularly enough for the nursing mares to survive with their foals. We had to wean the babies before winter. In November, after months of careful work, we had just successfully separated the babies from the adults, when Rosie panicked from what we later realized was Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder rooted in the trauma of her own capture in the wild. She threw herself into an eight-foot high metal gate, breaking her neck, and died instantly. We grieved for her more deeply than we can say. Only after seeing her panic did we fully understand the trauma she’d experienced in the original round up.

Rosie is gone, but the program she began is alive. Rosie’s son grew up and sired a filly with a gentled mustang the next year, and today he, the filly and the mare form the nucleus of a herd of tamed mustangs who serve as ambassadors to the people in Tapestry’s horse programs. Our dream is that someday a herd of still-wild mustangs will live free on Tapestry land once again—and the dream Rosie lived so briefly will become a reality.

$25.00 plus $3.00 shipping.

Tapestry Board member and Native artist Lori Lambert (Abenaki, Mik’maq) has created a unique and limited line of Abenaki Arts earrings honoring the American mustang, and has donated them to Tapestry Institute for our autumn 2009 funding campaign. Each earring includes a beautifully carved fetish figure of a mustang with other lovely stones.

Dawn is Tapestry’s founder and first president (until late September of 2007). Shadow is her best friend, a black half-mustang, half-quarter horse who found her, instead of the other way around. For fifteen years he has known when she’d come home and waited at the gate, listened to her every conversation, and responded with astonishing insight and understanding every time she’s asked something extraordinary of him. In 1999, Shadow found a two-year old girl who’d wandered off into the Texas countryside (onto the farm where Dawn lived at the time), and down to a creek that was swift and deep and lay at the bottom of a twelve-foot trench. Shadow gently nuzzled the little girl all the way up from the creek to the front of the farmhouse and called Dawn’s attention to her, thereby saving the day and relieving the worst fears of the child’s parents and search parties. Dawn is certain he is Zorro’s horse Toronado in disguise, slipping out of his incognito persona whenever someone is in trouble.

$25.00 plus $3.00 shipping.

Tapestry Board member and Native artist Lori Lambert (Abenaki, Mik’maq) has created a unique and limited line of Abenaki Arts earrings honoring the American mustang, and has donated them to Tapestry Institute for our autumn 2009 funding campaign. Each earring includes a beautifully carved fetish figure of a mustang with other lovely stones. This pair celebrates the wild mustangs of the Pryor Mountains in Montana.

$25.00 plus $3.00 shipping.

Tapestry Board member and Native artist Lori Lambert (Abenaki, Mik’maq) has created a unique and limited line of Abenaki Arts earrings honoring the American mustang, and has donated them to Tapestry Institute for our autumn 2009 funding campaign. Each earring includes a beautifully carved fetish figure of a mustang with other lovely stones. These earrings honor Flint, a sooty buckskin mustang with the Pangare gene in our Tapestry herd, originally rounded up as a colt from the Sinbad herd management area in Utah.

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Tapestry Board member and Native artist Lori Lambert (Abenaki, Mik’maq) has created a unique and limited line of Abenaki Arts earrings honoring the American mustang, and has donated them to Tapestry Institute for our autumn 2009 funding campaign. Each earring includes a beautifully carved fetish figure of a mustang with other lovely stones. This pair commemorates the great mustangs of the Cheyenne people, among whom Lori has many relatives.

$25.00 plus $3.00 shipping.

Tapestry Board member and Native artist Lori Lambert (Abenaki, Mik’maq) has created a unique and limited line of Abenaki Arts earrings honoring the American mustang, and has donated them to Tapestry Institute for our autumn 2009 funding campaign. Each earring includes a beautifully carved fetish figure of a mustang with other lovely stones. This pair celebrates the wild mustangs of the Pryor Mountains in Montana.

$25.00 plus $3.00 shipping.

Tapestry Board member and Native artist Lori Lambert (Abenaki, Mik’maq) has created a unique and limited line of Abenaki Arts earrings honoring the American mustang, and has donated them to Tapestry Institute for our autumn 2009 funding campaign. Each earring includes a beautifully carved fetish figure of a mustang with other lovely stones. This pair suggests the mustangs’ greatness of heart and purity of soul.

$25.00 plus $3.00 shipping.

Kim McElroy

“The Legend” is Kim’s vision of the mystical heritage of horses. She leaves open the particular significance of horses ascending to the moon, so that individuals can find their own interpretations.

Poster size 16″x 20″

$12.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

Kim McElroy

“The Messenger” is Kim’s image of a spirit guide who connects humans to something horse-like inside them, as well as a symbol of human creativity and intuition.

Poster size 16″x 20″

$12.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

Kim McElroy

“Tribute” is a portrait of President Ronald Reagan’s favorite horse, Arabian stallion El Alamein, given to him by President Jose Lopez Portillo of Mexico. Kim personally presented the original to President Reagan on his birthday in 1995.

Poster size 16″x 20″

$12.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

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Lori Faith Merritt

2005 matte print of a wild horse herd by celebrated photographer Lori Faith Merritt.

Print size is 11″x 14″

$40.00 (retail $65) plus $5.00 shipping.

Kim McElroy

This t-shirt design was taken from an original painting, “The Night Mares” by Kim McElroy, which was commissioned for a children’s book, The Legend of the Night Mares. They are said to live in the Pegasus constellation. Designed by Kim McElroy, produced by The Mountain.

Only one left, size XL!

$8.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

Kim McElroy

A Palomino looks off into the far distance against a fiery sunset. T-shirt designed by Kim McElroy, produced by The Mountain.

Sizes available: Med, XL – Specify size at Paypal.

$8.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

Kim McElroy.

Two dappled grey horses stand with heads together on a sage green ground. T-shirt designed by Kim McElroy, produced by The Mountain.

Sizes available: Med, Lg, XL – Specify size at Paypal.

$8.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

Kim McElroy

The “Moonlight” t-shirt design is taken from a painting of the same name, which evokes the mystery and peace of the horse in the darkness of night. Designed by Kim McElroy, produced by The Mountain.

Sizes available: Med, XL – Specify size at Paypal.

$8.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

Mary Ann Kennedy.

The Grammy-nominated hit songwriter says of her music, “I have 2 passions in my life. The love of horses and animals, and the love of music. The Trail Less Traveled and Hoofbeats, Heartbeats, and Wings

5 CDs available embrace them both.”

$12.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

Mary Ann Kennedy

The Grammy-nominated hit songwriter says of her music, “I have 2 passions in my life. The love of horses and animals, and the love of music. The Trail Less Travelled and Hoofbeats, Heartbeats, and Wings

4 CDs available embrace them both.”

$12.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

Size 8. These beautiful blue boots with a retro cowgirl rose pattern are in a style discontinued by Ariat two years ago. They have been so gently worn as to be like-new. Genuine leather throughout, quality tooling, and Ariat’s famous design for comfort as well as beauty. Additional photos available on request. Only one pair available.

$50.00 plus $10.00 shipping.