A Merry Christmas to you and your family.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2018
My last order for the Christmas season, a Raven and Sun bracelet, 23K Gold.
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Sunday, November 25, 2018
Bear Pendant, silver & abalone shell
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Raven Ring, silver & 14K Gold, 3/4" Wide
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Hummingbird Silver Pendant
Orca Silver Pendant
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Thursday, November 8, 2018
For those who like a wide band, a Bear ring 3/4" wide in sterling silver.
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I am working on silver pendants for Christmas - Bear, Butterfly and Eagle.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018
My art is featured on the current issue of the Journal of Canadian Art History.
Inside is an article on Life on the 18th Hole, by Dr. Carolyn Butler-Palmer of the University of Victoria.
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Sunday, October 14, 2018
The Thunderbird that Came Down From Above
23K Gold and Abalone Shell
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Portrait
of Emma Martin – a Highborn Woman
In the time of our great-grandparents, a number of
Kwakwaka’wakw people were sent to jail for singing and dancing: traditional
Indigenous culture was unlawful at that time. They served their sentences at Oakalla
Prison near Vancouver, far away from their communities and families.
One woman, Emma Martin, felt that she had to do something
to help her people so she left her village and went to live in the city, where
she visited the people, she brought them gifts of food and other items to help
them during their incarceration, and when they were released she gave them
money and clothes to return home. She is a heroine of the Kwakwaka’wakw and
serves as a role model for those who remember her.
The labret in her lower lip represents her status as a high
born woman, with copper having special historical / cultural significance. The
face on the forehead represents the people that she helped.
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Friday, September 21, 2018
New Work - Orca Bracelet, 1 1/2" wide, silver with oxidization
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A Sea Bear bracelet, 1" wide in sterling silver with oxidization.
In our legends there are other worlds, such as the realm under the sea that is ruled by Komokwa. What people don't understand is that it is a complete world, like another dimension, that has characters like Dzunokwis and Sea Bear and human characters, like Siwid, go down and live among them for a time.
Friday, August 24, 2018
The Thunderbird that Came Down from Above
Red cedar, 36" x 2"
Many years ago
a mighty Thunderbird came down from the Sky-world, transformed into a man and
lived with the first ancestors. He took a wife and had many children, and
taught them new skills that came from the Sky-world. Eventually he came to miss
his world and transformed back into a Thunderbird and returned to his home in
the sky. Today, when one of his descendants passes away the thunder shakes the
heavens and rain pours from the sky, to remind the people of their origins.
My latest print - "A Box of Light"
In ancient times, the world was dim and there was no sun in
the sky warming the day. Raven, the trickster, learned that an old man had the
sun stored away in a cedar box. He lived with his daughter in a big-house far
to the north, and Raven decided that he would steal the sun from the old man.
He arrived at the house to see the daughter drawing water from a spring near
their house, and he transformed himself into a cedar sprig and fell into the
water. A short time later the girl drank the water, and the next day she gave
birth to a beautiful baby boy, who was the Raven transformed.
The old man was overjoyed to be a grandfather and loved to
play with his grandson. He was greatly surprised to find that the baby grew
into a toddler, then a young boy in only a few days. The boy was precocious and
was played with everything in the house. The one thing that he wasn’t allowed
to touch was the old-fashioned cedar box that the old man kept in the back of
the house.
But the boy cried and cried until the old man finally gave
his grandson the box to play with. The boy took it outside, seemingly to play
with it outdoors, but as soon as he was outside of the house he transformed
back into Raven, took the cedar box in his beak and flew away. He flew high,
high into the sky, laughing at his own cleverness. But when he reached the
clouds a gust of wind blew the box out of his mouth, and as it fell the lid
opened, the sun escaped and floated up towards the sky world where it stayed; shining
its light on the world below.
Edition: 50 prints, 26” x 15”
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Dzunokwa's Daughter mask (The Wildwoman of the Woods)
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Wouldn't this look eerie dancing to the light
of a fire in a big-house - Bukwis, the Wildman of the Woods mask
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The contract is signed - UBC Press will be publishing my book in 2019.
The story of how I found my way back to the culture after 25 years away.
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Jesus with a Crown of Thorns and Carrying a Cross, 14K Gold.
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It's rare that I make a large pendant like this 2 1/2" Bear.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Here is a design that you don't see often- Loon Pendant in silver
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A unique piece - Eagle pendant in 14K Gold
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I love doing inlay work
An Eagle pendant, silver with 24K gold inlay
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Dzunokwa's Daughter (Wild Woman of the Woods) is finished carving and ready to paint
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I just finished polishing this Hummingbird Bracelet
14K Gold
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Twin Ravens Releasing the Sun pendant
23K Gold
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Monday, April 9, 2018
Wolf Pendant in 23K Gold (96.5% pure)
Notice the color difference compared to the 14K gold pendant below.
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A Bear and his Spirit Helper, 14K gold pendant
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Tuesday, March 20, 2018
The hand engraving is complete on this Twin Ravens Releasing the Sun bracelet, in 23K gold.
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I just need to add the abalone shell to the bail on this 23K gold Salmon Pendant,
and it will be finished.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Once the world was chaos; there was no day; there was no light. Raven, the trickster, resolved to steal the sun and keep it for himself. Through cunning he stole the sun, but through foolishness he lost it, and released daylight to the world.
A work in progress - Raven Releasing the Daylight Pendant, 24K Gold.
Sunday, February 25, 2018
A silver Moon Bracelet, the hand engraving is complete and it is ready to shape and polish.
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The joy of working with 24K Gold, an Orca Pendant in progress.
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