Symbol of the evil goddess

2003 - This is a fantasy symbol for a cleric of Rahs, that is a fantasy goddess in a live-rpg setting. I did it for a character I thought I'd have played, but never did.
It's 9 cm long, and meant to be a pendant (hence the string).
The bone is a vertebra of a sheep, which I found while I was walking in the countryside with a friend of mine (we discovered a place - sort of a cave - where shepherds threw the carcasses of dead sheeps, and I came back home with a backsack full of bones, and even two skulls. Yes, I know I'm a bit weird! )
Anyway... I worked on the vertebra, carving, levigating and modelling it, and adding certain white synthetic clay in order to create a place for the gem.
The gem is a beautiful piece of glass, one of those they use for decorated belts and bags.

I did the snake with a 2-components clay for sculptors. It's called Milliput and it's a very good stuff, you can make tiny details with it, with little effort (apart time and lots of patience).
I built the snake around the bone, because once the clay dries, you can't change its shape anymore, not even slightly: this was the hardest part: to keep all that thing in position, while pressing a little mould on its surface to carve the skin, and paying attention that all the rest wasn't pushed flat meanwhile.

In the whole, it took about 12 hours of work and it's quite a unique piece.

Edit: sold!

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