Breaching Northwest Native Orca Carving 20" Tall

Description

This is a hand-carved Northwest Coast First Nations 'Raven-Finned Killer Whale' panel that will transform any wall and inject your space with West Coast design. The primary figure is an orca whale breaching, but the dorsal fin has been created as a raven head. This panel measures appx 20"-22" tall by 7" wide and is signed. Please allow 3 weeks for delivery.
Although the Haida have almost seventy crest figures, less than a score are in general use. A few crest figures were used by many lineages, and a larger number were exclusive to a few lineages. The Killer Whale, which is a particularly strong feature of Haida art and myth, is a popular crest. All Raven lineages use forms of the Killer Whale as a crest; one of them, the Raven-Finned Killer Whale, refers to the myth in which Raven pecked himself out of the body of a whale through the end of its dorsal fin. Eagle lineages of Ninstints use only the Five-Finned Killer Whale, which links them to specific Killer Whale chiefs whose undersea village was near their own and with whom their mythic ancestors had a profitable experience. The tall dorsal fin of Killer Whale crests that belong to Ravens are always black, while those of Eagles have a diagonal white stripe.
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