Family of Hummingbirds Bentwood Box Bee

Family of Hummingbirds Bentwood Box BeeThis 'Family of Hummingbirds' Bentwood Box is by Kwakwaka'wakw artist Trevor Hunt. This bentwood box has bottom and sides made of yellow cedar and a lid of red cedar. It has been painted in purple, red and black acrylic on all four sides with a beautiful hummingbird design. Bentwood boxes are unique to the First Nations people of the Northwest Coast. Boxes are made from a single plank of red or yellow cedar that is grooved on each corner, steam bent

Soaring to great heights

It is a reinterpretation of Alano Edzerza's print Taku Red

he fell over dead

Overall the mask is about 9 1/2 inches or 24 centimeters wide

This Thunderbird Raven Spirit limited edition hand-produced screenprint is by Kwakwaka'wakw artist Mark Henderson from the Wei-Wai-Kum Band in Campbell River

Raven is a main crest of the Tlingit

12 inches or over 30 centimeters wide and 11 inches or 28 centimeters  deep

They were suspicious of Raven

It was released in January 2009

This is the direction of my life now to become as fluent in nuchahnulth as I can and to pass on what I know before I die

so I have what I need for today and to put by

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