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‘Creature of the Undersea’ Miniature Mask
Reuben Mack
$1,400.00 CADYellow Cedar wood, Beads, Crushed stone, Pencil, Acrylic paint
“This mask was inspired by a frog bowl I’ve been working on. I went out of my comfort zone experimenting with the different colours of the sea. Water from the Bella Coola Inlet, water from the creeks and rivers are painted in my designs. If you look closely, you’ll see sea Eagles and an upside-down face which represents the frog bowl that inspired me to start this piece.” – Reuben Mack, 2019
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Reaching for Light Sculpture (Killerwhale & Raven)
Gary Olver
$4,200.00 CADCatlinite, Abalone shell
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Bear, Eagle & Wolf Panel Pipe
Gary Olver
Price upon requestCatlinite, Abalone shell
Bear, Eagle, Wolf with Frog, Raven and Chief
Panel pipes are usually flat, featuring a single line of rounded figures strung along a horizontal plane. The figures are always inter-connected, typically through the mouth or tongue. This is said to symbolically represent the figures inhaling magical powers from each other and sharing their knowledge.
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Nolax’s (Sea Lion) Miya (Salmon) Journey
Lyle Wilson
Price upon requestMarine Ivory, Abalone shell
For more details on shipping Ivory outside of Canada, please click here and then click open the Shipping section and scroll down to read more on Shipping Restrictions.
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Halxinix (Orca) & Eel Sculpture
Lyle Wilson
Price upon requestMarine Ivory, Abalone shell
For more details on shipping Ivory outside of Canada, please click here and then click open the Shipping section and scroll down to read more on Shipping Restrictions.
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Gax (Raven): Shamanic Version of Light
Lyle Wilson
Price upon requestMarine Ivory, Abalone shell
For more details on shipping Ivory outside of Canada, please click here and then click open the Shipping section and scroll down to read more on Shipping Restrictions.
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Frog Bowl
Greg White Lightbown
$1,650.00 CADArgillite
The Frog symbolizes luck, prosperity, stability and healing. As a communicator, Frogs connect with the world on land and under water. This figure is often carved into totem poles to prevent them from falling over.
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My Final Exam Box (Raven)
David Neel
SOLDSterling Silver, Oxidized, 23K Yellow Gold
EngravedDavid Neel’s My Final Exam (Raven) Box is a sterling silver and gold miniature replication of a traditional bentwood box. The original box, carved by an enigmatic and mysterious artist known only as the “Master of the Black Field”, can be found in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The “Master of the Black Field” was of probable Tlingit descent and lived and worked during the 1800’s. The original box, which depicts a Seal, was collected by US Naval Lieutenant George Thornton Emmons, an ethnographic photographer who recorded information and artifacts from the Tlingit and Tahltan Nations in the 1880s.
All of the greats in Northwest Coast art, including the likes of Bill Reid and Robert Davidson, have studied the Master’s work. Bill Holm, the infamous Northwest Coast art historian and author of Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, has called the nineteenth-century original a “masterpiece.” Acclaimed Haida artist Bill Reid referred to his effort to learn from the box as “the final exam” in understanding the visual language of Northwest Coast northern design; thus informing Neel’s title of his own piece.
My Final Exam (Raven) Box is a highly detailed exploration of the finer uses of form line design. Neel’s study of the revered design by the Master can be seen when comparing the two pieces. Each panel of the original box is replicated in Neel’s own style. David has also inlaid the box with gold accents and oxidized the silver, adding further emphasis to its finite and intricate detailing. The lid is removable and seals perfectly on all four sides of the box.
While many of his pieces are more contemporary in their material and design, Neel learned carving in the traditional style by his family and peers in his father’s village. At the age of 27, he apprenticed with legendary artist Beau Dick. He attended art school studying photojournalism, and brings this wider awareness of contemporary art practice to his pieces.
“Northwest Coast design is infinitely complex, with endless possibilities, and I continue to try to further my understanding of this endlessly intricate art form.” ~ David Neel
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Medicine Man Box
Greg White Lightbown
$2,600.00 CADArgillite
Shamans, or Medicine Men & Women, were typically a chief of the village or a person of high-ranking stature who followed the directions given by their spirit helper.
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Iksduq’iya & Qolun (Eagle & Beaver) Box
Lyle Wilson
Price upon requestSterling Silver, Engraved and Textured on Hollow-ware2015
“My father’s Eagle Clan adopted me, but I was actually born into my mother’s Beaver Clan. Since the Haisla followed a matrilineal system, whereby every child was automatically included into its mother’s clan, my unusual adoption was due to the circumstances of the Eagle Clan having so many of its members die. Due to the early and unfamiliar diseases, everyone feared the clan would eventually become extinct.
I’ve always loved the look of a full-size, traditional wooden bent-box and liked the idea of a smaller, silver box using the same traditional proportions. It adds a unique sculptural look to any small box which, once seen, becomes a more appreciated detail with every subsequent examination. The box’s construction technique is very deceptive; it looks solid but is actually a box-within-a-box, with the hollow spaces between each ‘box’ allowing for visually thicker walls. For this box, I decided to honor my connections to both Haisla Clans – Beaver and Eagle – by engraving each on one-half of the box. The box’s lid has another Eagle engraved on the top, and the Halibut, a sub-crest shared by both clans, is engraved around the edges.”
-Lyle Wilson, 2016
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