• Materials: Yellow Gold and Silver
• Artists: Carrie Matilpi
• Totem Symbols: Dogfish
• Styles: Canadian First Nations
• Categories: Earrings

Dogfish

The Dogfish represents leadership. It is the symbol of persistence and strength. This spiny small shark is feared for its fierceness and possesses solitary characteristics such as bravery and uniqueness. The Dogfish is an important family crest and mythical being in Haida Culture.

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.