Eagle & Salmon Panel Yellow Cedar The dancer will sometimes carry

The dancer will sometimes carry a carved wooden clamshell or cockleshell

Others recount that this supernatural figure creates the boom of thunder as he flaps his wings in flight and is said to shoot lightning snakes from his eyes

and nourish us until they bring us into this world

view Moon as a masculine figure

Eagle & Salmon Panel Yellow Cedar The dancer will sometimes carryIndigenous artwork on the Pacific Northwest Coast often incorporates figures and animals that are related to crest symbols. Crests have been passed down through families and have varying meanings depending on the context and association with a nation, clan, or family. The figures depicted in contemporary Northwest Coast Indigenous artwork also have varying meanings but there are some common characteristics from a range of sources, including oral