Eagle Gorget – Sterling Silver

Description

This gorget was handwrought using silver chasing and repoussé.  It is sterling silver featuring an eagle, encouraging us to soar above and take a broad view of the world. The eagle is encompassed by stamp-work symbols for medicine plants such as the fiddlehead fern. The fiddlehead fern is the first plant to come up in the spring, reminding us that a new day is coming and there is hope.  It includes other  Eastern Woodland Wôbanaki style designs. Curves represent the fiddleheads and young plants of spring with the new life energy found in this spring season. The trees represent people, families, communities and Nations, placed inside the double curves they become energized with new life.  Stars and moons remind us of our ancestral relations and with the curves become a prayer for renewal and healing for ourselves and our languages and cultures here in North America – Turtle Island (‘Tolba Menahan’ in Western Abenaki).  The gorget is 6″ x 3″ and strung on glass beads and bone hairpipes.  Paul René, Abenaki artist did a 4 year apprenticeship to learn these skills. Each piece has his trademark, a sunrise with a drum with.  Check out our other silver and copper gorgets.