This guy was remade in June 2025. I started out wanting to rewrap the base of the horns, but one thing led to another and I ended up with a completely blank canvas. I LOVE the new look, and am so happy with my re-arting process. I knew I was committed to the Thunderegg cabochon. I also lined the eyes and nose with leather, which really added to the richness of the piece.
Genuine Blesbok skull with 79 Bed Thunderegg cabochon, surrounded by Czech glass seed beads and glass tiles. Mounted on driftwood collected by my father from Buffalo Bison near Cody, Wyoming in the mid-1970s. The blesbok or blesbuck is a subspecies of the bontebok antelope endemic to South Africa, Eswatini and Namibia. It has a distinctive white face and forehead which inspired the name, because bles is the Afrikaans word for a blaze such as one might see on the forehead of a horse