Ancient Dance

Nuxalk, Kwakwaka’wakw, Wuikinuxv
Yellow Cedar
4” x 3” x 3”

The ones before us left us pockets of wealth and treasures to learn from, to find connections of ceremony, the land, our families, and our creation stories. These carvings are visual stories of our ancestor’s survival of time. The songs we sing, the dances we dance, they are directly from experiences our ancestor’s had gone through on the very land we still occupy. These are Nuxalk truths. These treasures are not just historical artifacts, but living, breathing elements of identity and continuity that holds Nuxalkmc together. We carry this ancestral wisdom in our bones.