Traditional style tattoo on a forearm showing a seated figure in a feathered headdress holding a rose shield, with a red sun disc and small flowers.

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Headdress figure with rose shield on forearm

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A seated female figure in a feathered headdress and braid is the central subject, holding a round shield with a red rose and sitting beside a bundled arrow. Bold black outlines define the forms, with solid fills and flat shading in red, yellow, teal and green. Two red flowers and a red sun disc frame the figure on the forearm, against a brick wall.

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Dear Tom,

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The gallery is shut for the winter and I have been up a ladder every morning since Monday, repainting the back board. Dad's sun is still there underneath, that big red disc behind the targets, but the sea air has faded it to the colour of old brick. I mixed the red with a drop of madder and a spoon of Mr Pryce's linseed, the way Dad used to, and it took three coats before the edges stopped looking tired.

Mr Pryce came by on Tuesday with his flask and stood at the bottom of the ladder saying nothing, which is how he says most things. He looked at the rose shield we painted onto the little tin lid nailed to the left post, the one you made at fourteen with a pot of Dad's leftover enamel, and he said it was the only thing on the whole front that had never needed touching up. I told him that was because you were too proud to let anyone else near it.

Then the rain came in sideways on Thursday and knocked the bolt out of the lid. Behind it, folded in oilcloth, was the arrow Dad painted for the booth, the one he swore he'd sold in '61. It was bound with the same rope-coloured tape and still had its teal feathers, bright as the day he brushed them. I have hung it over the kettle. You'll think I've gone soft. Come home at Easter and tell me it isn't the best thing you've ever seen.

Love, Nell

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