I’ve always like clan house designs. They’re large scale and meant to be discernible from a canoe approaching the village. This one is a Bear design from the Chief Shakes house in Wrangell, Alaska. #tlingit#alaskanative
https://stoningtongallery.com#tlingit#indegenousart#alaskanative “Tree of Life” Acrylic on birch panel. In the village of Kake, where this artist is from, the used to be an old spruce tree, hundreds of years old. It was so huge, its lower boughs created a canopy; a shelter. There was a fresh water stream that ran year round, and the ground was covered with soft moss. Some women even gave birth there. My brother-in-law, Mike Jackson, said that tree was known as the “Tree of Life.”
“Dance of Balance. Acrylic on birch panel, abalone shell inlay. The painting represents Nature has its way of with its own equilibrium. It has intelligence and complexity and beauty of its
own. It teaches us our place among all living things, of which we are an intrinsic part. #tlingit#indigenous#alaskanativehttps://stoningtongallery.com/artwork/dance-of-balance/
Upper Left: the Voice
Upper Right: the Mind
Center: the Heart
Center Left and Right: Male/Female versions of ourselves
Bottom Left: the Base
Bottom Center: Soul Catcher
Acrylic on birch panel, gold foil. The blue-green color is a killer whale from behind. The bottom is the tail, and above the tail are the flukes. The little round face is the killer whale. The small circle above the little face is the blowhole. The upside-down face on bottom are the paddlers. His arms and legs are the yellow-green color. #alaskanative#indigenous#tlingithttps://stoningtongallery.com/artwork/canoe-journey/
‘Now the national, regional and local levels of the #Presbyterian church together are paying roughly $950,000 in #reparations for the harm and pain the closure caused. The amount is noteworthy. A “down payment” is being presented to Sealaska Heritage Institute and the Central Council of the #Tlingit & #Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska on Oct. 9, 2023.’ #PCUSA
(The values of the actor, who framed her Valentino couture with #NativeAmerican jewellery at Cannes Film Festival, chime with the mantra followed by Jennifer Younger, who says, “Looking back takes me forward.” Younger, who is #Tlingit of the Eagle #Kaagwaantaan clan and now lives in Sitka, #Alaska looks to Tlingit form-line designs and spruce-root basket weaving patterns to inform her freehand pieces, each of which is – just like Lily’s silver and coral necklace..) https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/native-american-jewellery-lily-gladstone/amp