Also known as: My Neruda Nook
This Kokopelli was given to me many years ago by my husband. Over the years I have collected different percussion instruments and they seemed to fit nicely on and around the kokopelli. Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet, was a collector--of everything. He had a large collection of musical instruments that he did not know how to play. He said he collected them not for their use but for their form. I too collect these instruments more for their form than their function--though my grandson loves the sounds he can produce with them. I really enjoy walking by and thinking of their places of origin--Africa, Peru, Mexico, Hawaii--and of the New Mexico Navajo man who made the Indian drum and signed it for me.
This photo was taken a while ago. Today I walked by and noticed that the Neruda Nook had been redesigned--by our eight-month-old kitten. It seems Inka prefers it as a cat playground. Nothing has been damaged, but the nicely arranged rawhide on the branch is more or less braided and a few instruments have been reorganized to comply with kitty feng shui.
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