Xwixwi Mask 4 Decades of Inspiration ExhibitionThis Xwixwi Mask by Kwagu artist Calvin Hunt is carved in red cedar and painted in red, green, and black acrylic. XwiXwi masks originated from the Sxwaixwe, a sacred Coast Salish mask. Though the Salish have many spirit dances and songs, the Sxwaixwe is their only dance mask. Imbued with great supernatural powers, this underwater being was associated with healing and rumbling earthquakes. The Sxwaixwe mask had large peg eyes, no lower mandible, and
They force us to look inwards to our own relationships
and over 1 inch or 2 1/2 centimeters thick
The Panel features a Kwaguilth / Tlingit Eagle Bentwood Box design that is sandblasted into a 5/8 of an inch or 1
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Chíin Sgáanuwaay ~ Supernatural Salmon I is a Hand-Pulled Serigraph from a limited edition of 145 Prints from 2009
It represents most probably a Sea Bear (Ts'amgus) Design that was carved in the year 1956
Zofia is a limited giclee edition print by Rande Cook from the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation
The back of the pendant shows the back of the man's head which is typical of Darrell's very detail-oriented work
but embracing it and being in the here and now
“On British Columbia's northwest coast lies the Sacred Headwaters-the source of three of British Columbia's largest salmon-bearing rivers
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It was released in July 2013
