Silver 3/4" Orca Bracelet Yagis or Sea Monster

Silver 3/4" Orca Bracelet Yagis or Sea MonsterThis Orca or Killer Whale Bracelet is hand carved in sterling silver by Bill Helin from the Tsimshian Nation. The Orca or Killer Whale symbolizes family, romance, longevity, harmony, travel, community and protection. He is said to protect those who travel away from home, and to lead them back when the time comes. Orcas will often stay their whole life with the same pod and raise each calf with care. Find more information about and examples of The Orca

and takes them back to her home where she eats them

each numbered and signed by the artist

These elaborate hats (´xis´) replicate the form of the woven spruce root crest hats

For traditional designing

They say ours instead of mine

It is a supernatural canoe that could fly across the sky into the heavens

For our people

depicted here

she is associated with great wealth and power

This hand-carved Haida pendant has two mother-of-pearl inlays and features very finely incised formline designs and crosshatching

It is about 17 ½ inches or 45 centimeters wide

When Mark Hobson called me and asked for my involvement with this group