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Hand-carved Sterling Silver Little Raven bracelet

Written by  Owen Walker

. It is fairly easy to fit a creature onto a bracelet that is 1 and 1/2 inches wide or 2 inches wide, but it has proved much more difficult to compress the personality and ego of a Raven in 1/2 inch, and that goes for other creatures too, not […] Read more »

Categories: Hand Carved Bracelets - Tags: Hand Carved Bracelet, North West Coast, Raven

Hand-carved Sterling Silver Timber Wolf bracelet

Written by  Owen Walker

  Every thing that lives on the North West Coast lives in the timber or in the water there just isn’t any other place. When I lived in the far north I loved to sing with the wolves and to the wolves. When it gets real cold -40 and lower […] Read more »

Categories: Hand Carved Bracelets - Tags: Abalone, Hand Carved Bracelet, North West Coast, Sterling Silver, Wolf

Hummingbird sterling silver hand carved bracelet

Written by  Owen Walker

When we see and hear these beautiful little creatures, we can feel joy in our souls and rejoice with them to the pure essence of life. These little masters of flight eat tiny bugs and flower nectar. What a sweet dinner they have. When we see Hummingbird, it reminds us […] Read more »

Categories: Hand Carved Bracelets - Tags: Abalone, Hand Carved Bracelet, Hummingbird, North West Coast, Sterling Silver

Loon hand carved sterling silver bracelet

Written by  Owen Walker · Leave a Comment
Loon hand carved sterling silver bracelet Design #34

Loon is rather rare in North West Coast art which seems a bit strange as there are so many loons living here. Perhaps it is because they spend so much time underwater. He appears as a kind of minor walk on character in a few stories, but nothing of a […] Read more »

Categories: Hand Carved Bracelets - Tags: Hand Carved Bracelet, Loon, North West Coast, Sterling Silver

Hand carved sterling silver Frog bracelet

Written by  Owen Walker

The Frog is truly a creature of transformation, from egg, to Polliwog, to Frog. Spring is Frog’s time of power. Change is the only true constant in life and Frog helps this changing through one’s own creative and spiritual resources. Frog is a very powerful spirit helper who can help […] Read more »

Categories: Hand Carved Bracelets - Tags: Abalone, Frog, Hand Carved Bracelet, North West Coast, Sterling Silver, Tlinget

Hand carved sterling silver raven bracelet

Written by  Owen Walker

in the mid range both in price and complexity of design and the mate to the eagle we just wrote about. Split from tail to beak so he appears to be two ravens curving around your wrist, his eyes are too far apart to support abalone inlay. One of my […] Read more »

Categories: Hand Carved Bracelets - Tags: Hand Carved Bracelet, North West Coast, Octopus, Raven, Sterling Silver

Young Eagle hand carved sterling silver bracelet

Written by  Owen Walker

This is a small Eagle for those Eagle people who don’t want to make a huge statement, but want an easily recognized eagle. Split from tail to nose so that both sides show an Eagle in profile. It bothers some people to think that the eagle has been split into […] Read more »

Categories: Hand Carved Bracelets - Tags: Abalone, Eagle, Hand Carved Bracelet, North West Coast, Sterling Silver

Golden Eagle Hand Carved Sterling Silver Bracelet

Written by  Owen Walker

  . Golden Eagle has kind of become an obsession over the last few years, I have several golden eagle feathers and have seen several here. We live in Bald eagle country and seldom does a day go by that we don’t see several bald eagles. But spotting a golden […] Read more »

Categories: Custom Jewelry, Hand Carved Bracelets - Tags: Abalone, Eagle, Hand Carved Bracelet, Mokume Gane, North West Coast, Sterling Silver

Great Blue Heron hand carved pendant

Written by  Owen Walker

Great Blue Heron sterling silver hand carved pendant#418. There are hundreds of herons living and nesting near us so we get to know them very well. I guess you would say we are in the flyway, because when they are nesting we often see several hundred flyovers in one day. […] Read more »

Categories: Custom Pendants, Hand Carved Pendants, Necklaces - Tags: great blue heron, North West Coast, Northwest Coast Indian, Sterling Silver

Octopus hand carved sterling silver pendant

Written by  Owen Walker

Hand carved sterling silver Octopus pendant #409. Octopus were often called devilfish by the early settlers and by many natives. I couldn’t tell you why as I think they are one of the most fascinating creatures on the planet! I told the story of the children tormenting a baby octopus […] Read more »

Categories: Hand Carved Pendants - Tags: North West Coast, Northwest Coast Indian, Octopus, Salish

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