Bear Earrings

Materials: Sterling Silver 925 / Cast Measurements: 5/8" X 7/16" (16mm X 11mm) Totem Symbols: Bear Artists: Carrie Matilpi Styles: Canadian First Nations Categories: Earrings Bear The Bear symbolizes strength, independence, learned humility, and teaching. The protector of the animal kingdom. With great power and human like qualities, the Bear is known as the Elder Kinsman and is always treated as a high-ranking guest. Carrie Matilpi Carrie was born in 1976, her tribes are Kwakiutl, Carrier and Cree. She started silver work in 1994 in an apprenticeship under her father Charles Harper who had been apprenticed under great Lloyd Wadhams in the mid 1970’s. The other major influences of Carrie’s native designs are from her uncles, they are Douglas and Glen Harper, Dennis and George Matilpi, all of them are well known for their wood carvings and jewelry engraving. Carrie creates intricate and delicate pieces, mainly in silver, drawing inspiration from the traditional animals of her nations.