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Indian Chief Description

On August 13, 2001, I drove down to Santa Cruz, California to the Oceana Glass Company to visit two very special people, Rod Craig, owner of Oceana Glass and John Triggs, owner of Youghiogheny Glass.

John had come out from Pennsylvania to finalize arrangements for the merging of the two glass companies and the transportation of production equipment from California to back East.

Here were two intelligent, knowledgeable, professional manufacturers and purveyers of some of the finest glass in the world available for stained glass, smiling and playing like kids in a sandbox making experimental sheets of glass and discussing future production and ideas.

John showed me two sheets of glass that he and Rod had run that morning, a white mottle and a white mottle with frit. The components used were a combination of materials used in the manufacture of both companies glasses. I thought, "Here is something special." "Here is something unique, original and probably two sheets of glass that have never and will never exist again."

I asked John if he had any plans for these two sheets of glass, and he said no, so I grabbed both of them, ran to my car and locked them inside, prepared to defend them with my life.

Rod, John and I chatted a bit more, then said our goodbyes. I promised John an indian panel using Youghiogheny glass, Oceana glass and the two hybrid sheets.

The tufts on the ends of the headdress feathers is the white mottled hybrid.

The chest of the chief is the mottled frit hybird.

The beading and forehead of the headdress and chevrons are Oceana

The background, feathers, face, shirt are Youghiogheny.

     
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