Shooflies

by mark blake

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Shooflies

  • Joined Jun 2017
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Sti’Tumma had always wanted to have beautiful beaded “shooflies” attached to her saddle, on the breastplate and under the horse’s tummy on the cinch. She had already made a couple for her favorite bridle! The shooflies were made from a small amount of horsehair being folded in half, wrapped with buckskin, and beadwork put over the buckskin. The shoofly would then be clipped onto the favorite spot selected by each rider. So when the horses had their tails cleaned, the hair was saved for Sti’Tumma who then went to work to make herself some beautiful and colorful shooflies. Sometimes Gilly, Sti’Tumma’s sister, would do the beadwork on a dozen shooflies at a time for the trail guides. The shooflies would move with the horse and keep some of the flies from settling on the horse!It was a beautiful Saturday morning and time to get ready to meet the scheduled trail riders at the lake for the 20-mile ride through the beautiful countryside. Her nephew and youngest brother saddled her horse while she went to select the shooflies to attach to her saddle today. Across the breastplate she clipped six, on the cinch she clipped two, and on the rear of the saddle she clipped two. She stood back to take a good look, and said to herself, “Today both Zoomer and I will look good!”

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