Chief Talking Staff Brooch

Chief Talking Staff BroochThis Chief Talking Staff was hand carved by Kwakwaka'wakw artist Greg Henderson of the Wei Wai Kum Nation in Campbell River, BC. It has been carved from yellow cedar and painted in acrylic. The design includes a Thunderbird on top, then a Whale, a Raven, and at the bottom a Bear. The stand represents an Eagle and is carved in red cedar. The Thunderbird Symbol represents power, protection, and strength. He is often seen as the most powerful of all

This exchange—salmon giving themselves to people and people returning the stuff of regeneration to salmon—ensured the continuity of the salmon runs each season and the continuity of life itself

The sea world evoked through the frozen waves of snow & ice

32 abalone inlays

bearing the numbers 1/50 through 50/50

The mask including the cedar bark measures approximately 33 inches or 84 centimeters high

or for burial

Find more information about and examples of The Thunderbird Northwest Coast First Nations symbol

It has been hand-carved from red cedar and is painted in yellow

and 8 inches or 20 centimeters deep

and about 6 1/2 inches or 16 1/2 centimeters deep

It’s the same thing as breaking coppers—they decided that enough’s enough and it was causing too much fighting within families

It sits perched like a sentinel