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This project WAS A PAIN.  I'm glad that it was just an experiment on my part, not a commission or anything.  All I can think up when I look at this thing is all the stuff I plan to do differently if I procure bones of a similar type in the future.  

Anyway, this Thanksgiving, the turkey my household had was a creature with extra-large wings... like, freakishly large. I wonder if an eagle got mistaken for a turkey at the processing plant.  I did what I don't usually do with delicate bird-bones - I cleaned the wing bones up because I thought they'd be large enough to withstand cleaning and art-making processes.  

I gave them an initial cleaning and then let them dry out over months - I kind of forgot about them, actually.  When I decided to do something with them, they still weren't clean enough - they had a waxy buildup that ruined a necklace I made with turkey legs one year.  I bleached them again, boiled them, and let them dry until they finally looked good and still proved sturdy.    After that, I wanted to make a necklace and did all kinds of weirdness in trying to figure out how to string everything together.  

The final result is a big, garish thing that is... I tell you, those wing bones... the bones alone are freakishly huge.  Did we eat a turkey or an ostrich?  I have it up on a wall, not planning on actually wearing it as a necklace anywhere, but I did make it to be possible.

False wing/feather accents made with Sculpey, paint, gold leafing-ink... glass beads... The central pendant - that's a marble out of a Ramune' bottle.  (I harvested several for use in odd art projects).  

They are wings that never knew flight because, while wild turkeys can fly for short distances, domestic turkeys (overbred with large breasts and general waddling obesity because we like to eat them), do not.  

Next time, I think I will try for something more wearable using only the radius and ulna bones.  
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