Mammoth's Bone is a tremendously powerful and ancient Uktena fetish.
History[]
During the Trail of Tears of the Cherokee in 1838, the Uktena Singing Water died protecting her Kinfolk. Singing Water was the guardian of the Mammoth's Bone, and before her death, she managed to impart the artifact onto one of her Cherokee Kinfolk. She gave him a brief history of the fetish and charged him with eventually getting it back into the hands of the Changing Breeds.[1] In 1892, Joseph Tallman's mother (a Cherokee woman of unknown name) died, but not before passing the Mammoth's Bone fetish on to him. He eventually gave the artifact to his wife, Moriah Tallman, as a wedding gift.[2]
In 1910, Joseph Tallman died, leaving his widow Moriah Tallman to care for their children as well as the ancient and powerful fetish known as the Mammoth's Bone, though she knew essentially nothing of the artifact's nature. Desperate to support her children and herself, she attempted to sell the artifact, but could not find anybody willing to purchase it for a price she deemed reasonable. Black Spiral Dancer Kinfolk eventually caught wind of this, and attacked her and her children, killing them and setting their house (in North Carolina, near Boone) on fire in the process. Her neighbors arrived and scared them off before they could secure the fetish, but could do nothing to save Moriah, her children, or her house. One of her neighbors, Everett Peebels, found the mysteriously-undamaged sliver of the Mammoth's Bone amidst the ashes and rubble, and secretly removed it from the site.[3]
References[]
- ↑ WTA: Rage Across Appalachia, p. 131 -132
- ↑ WTA: Rage Across Appalachia, p. 132
- ↑ WTA: Rage Across Appalachia, p. 132