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Nłuut’iksis Niyaat (Grandpa's Treasure)
$9,000.00 CAD
Artist Phil Gray
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Tsimshian-Cree
Birch
4.5” x 2.25” x 2”
Birch wood baby rattle, depicting Txeemsm as a baby trying to steal the sun from the chief of the sky. The faces show him crying for the box that contains the sun, and him smiling after the chief of the sky gave into his wailing, and let him have the box. The feathering on the rim of the rattle hints at Txeemsm's favourite form(raven) and the white of the wood represents his colouring shortly before the sun would turn him black.