Ancients of the Northwest Coast believed that some animals could supernaturally change their appearance and take on human form. Some humans could also transform into animals or mythic creatures when it was useful to do so. Bear moved back and forth from animal to human form, and as a result had characteristics of both. An ...

This is another bear design, and it occurs to me that I don’t know how many different bear designs I have produced, and I guess it doesn’t matter. When you live in South East Alaska (the Panhandle), bears are your neighbors even in the towns. They are every where! When bears are your neighbors you ...

Dentalium is everywhere and yet, as a Trade Bead researcher and jewelry designer, it’s been my experience to find that so few people even know what it is. Dentalium is a seashell harvested on the Pacific coast of western Washington and southern British Columbia in waters averaging 60 feet deep, it rarely washed up on ...

    Awesome Thunderbird! This is the first of the new hand engraved tags being carved by Adam Mills in Sterling Silver at Walker Goldsmiths. The Tag features a Thunderbird.  Adam has been learning and working at hand engraving with the assistance of Owen Walker, Master Engraver,  for over a year. This tag is the ...

Walker Goldsmiths were privileged a couple of weeks ago to be involved with making custom wedding rings for a couple of special people. It was very much fun! They came to us highly recommended by a dear friend and mother of the groom. They had found on the internet a ring design that they thought ...

Walker Goldsmiths did the Seattle Gift Show again this year and it’s been fun to see lots of old friends from AK and the lower 48.  We definitely noticed that the buying was slower and more cautious in volume and that folks are totally sick of having to be this way because of the slow ...