(1) It is made from green woolen cloth with an appliquéd design of a bird, perhaps an eagle, hawk, or thunderbird , in red flannel.(2) The patch - painted to depict a North American Indian mythical half-eagle, half-hawk thunderbird - is hallowed ground.(3) DeCora selected a symbol that she believed would be easily understood by all Native American readers: the eagle, or thunderbird .(4) Doreen Jensen works with Cassandra Malley on her thunderbird design at the button blanket workshop.(5) The two two-metre tall totems - one of a bear and the other of a thunderbird - were carved by Squamish Nation carver Ritchie Baker and stood on the school grounds for more than 20 years.(6) Alas, one day the young braves, distracted by a thunderbird swooping overhead, failed to check the ground over which they rolled the mat, and when the chief stepped upon it, he screamed in pain.(7) Thunder and lighting spirits took the form of thunderbirds known as Wakinyan.(8) The shapes of killer whales, turtles, grizzly bears, ravens and beavers are based on real animals, while thunderbirds and double-headed serpents were invented.
