Bone Carving Skull Pendant / Bead

Small and detailed hand carved  Death´s Head from white Buffalo Bone with 1mm vertikal drilling.
Wearable as single or multiple pendant on your necklace or bracelet!

SKULL:
The skull is a widely known symbol of Vanitas and "Memento Mori" which goes to show the bodys limited time on earth and it's inevitable turn to dust. The skull, domicile of the brain, is perceived in many cultures as the vessel of the spirit and the soul and thus as the source for thought and life. Skulls were amongst other things used in alchemy for conversion processes. Vanitas symbols - mostly with moralizing intent - are supoposed to remind of perishability of life and of material goods. Another one of their themes is the escape of everything lively from violent interference. The term "Memento Mori" originated in latin and means literally "Remember to die" (means -that you will have to die). In use is also "Memento Mortis" ("Remember death"). The exhortation "Memento Mori" was already used in the antiquity. A slave in ancient rome would stand behind his successful (in battle) master, who was given a victory parade, holding a laurel wreath and the Jupiter temple crown above his head reminding him without pause of the following:

• Memento mori: Remember that you will have to die!
• Memento te hominem esse: Remember that you are human.
• Respice post te, hominem te esse memento: Look around - think, that you are only human.