Tlingit Basket, Amber/Orange Vern Etzerza including oral histories and artist

including oral histories and artist descriptions

Salmon is fundamental to all coastal peoples and is a symbol of regeneration

Edition 9/88

ensuring that we will always be paddling in unison towards the betterment of humanity

the year before Bill Reid passed away

Tlingit Basket, Amber/Orange Vern Etzerza including oral histories and artistTlingit glass artist Preston Singletary is well known for these beautiful basket forms. He references objects like the traditional spruce root baskets from his Tlingit heritage in his glasswork as a way of rethinking and re contextualizing the item. In doing so he imbues these pieces with the elegance and beauty that the traditional woven forms are so well known for.