Pitch Woman Mask Hummingbird

Pitch Woman Mask HummingbirdThis Pitch Woman Mask is carved in red cedar by Russell Tate from the Ditidaht First Nation on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island. Russell remembers being told about Pitch Woman from his grandmother. She cautioned that children who walked off into the woods alone were at risk of being kidnapped by Pitch Woman, so named because she would put pitch in their eyes before carrying them home in her basket to eat. Pitch Woman is a symbol similar to the

Dragonfly ~ Díi gwaa III is a Hand-Pulled Serigraph from a limited edition of 55 Prints from 2013

Chilkat weaving is said to have originated among the Tsimshian and later adopted by the Chilkat Tlingit

with one Abalone inlay and an inlay with 11

It has been carved from red cedar

12 inches or 30 1/2 centimeters wide

the box could easily be made watertight

made in 2008 by Roy Henry Vickers from the Tsimshian Nation

Hummingbird II is a Hand-Pulled Serigraph from an Artist Proof Edition of 8 from 2006

The Raven's wings and the moon in the Raven's beak are detachable

This Dance Wand is about 6 feet or 72 inches or 183 centimeters long and about 8 inches or about 20 cm wide

From ballroom to latin to hip hop to tap to swing to jive to line to two-step to letting your body move in a carefree whirlwind

After she passed away in 1997