Hunter of the Woods Mask BraceletThis At'la'kwis or Hunter of the Woods Mask was hand carved by Kwakwaka'wakw artist Bill Henderson. The Hunter has been carved from red cedar, while the Raven on top has been carved from yellow cedar. The mask has been painted in red, black, and green acrylic and features a bundle of cedar bark on either side. The mask measures approximately 21 inches or 53 centimeters high, 17 inches or 43 centimeters wide, and 13 inches or 33 centimeters deep. The
making all the animals fit together in a way that flows and fills the space
numbered in original
Hunt from the Kwakwaka´wakw Nation is hand-carved from red cedar
because they were no longer “Indian” under the law
that which can tie us to each other and to the land
echoes the natural physical transformation of spawning salmon as they return from their mysterious four-year odyssey in the open ocean to enter the last phase of their journey to spawn and to die
The second time he created the mainland out of the white pebble and Haida Gwaii out of the black pebble
It has been carved from sterling silver with 1 amber stone bezel set into the eye of the Raven
you are transfixed and transported into another realm
It is from this nest that some of our children will venture off into the larger world and it is in this nest that they will always have a home to which they can return
As argillite has to be hand-cut and backpacked down a mountain from the Slatechuck quarry on Haida Gwaii
It has stood there for the past 13 years
