• Materials: Yellow Gold
• Artists: Matthew McKay
• Totem Symbols: Raven, Sun
• Styles: Canadian First Nations
• Categories: Pendants

Sun

The Sun represents abundance, life, healing, and warmth. Released from a box by the Raven, the Sun Chief inhabits the sky and could only be reached by climbing a chain of arrows. The Sun is often carved on totems and masks and sits atop the tallest totem pole.

Raven

The creator, transformer, and trickster. He is mischievous and playful, symbolizing truth, knowledge, and transformation. Raven demonstrates the complexity of nature, and reminds us that not everyone sees the world in the same way. While a trickster, in many myths he is an aid to the creator, acting as the messenger from the sky, clarifying truths for the people, earning him the name “keeper of secrets”. In mythology the Raven released the sun and moon into the sky and discovered mankind in a clamshell.

Matthew McKay

Matthew Mckay is from Nisga'a / Dene. He began carving jewelry in 2002. He and his brother Sandi were taught primarily by his father, Henry McKay.