Mine was made a few years ago in Texas, by Albert Alfonzo. A couple of weeks after I talked to him about the details of having it made, he called me to let me know that it would be a bit late. Seems he'd just gotten out of the hospital, having contracted a nasty sickness from the goat skins-born, raised & skinned domestically in the USA. It evidently took a bit of digging for the Dr's to figure that one out. Not bird flu, by the way, just something which happens sometimes as a reaction to breathing or ingesting little bits from the skins.