• Materials: Sterling Silver 925 / Laser engraved
• Measurements: 2" X 1 3/8" / 51mm X 35mm
• Artists: Eric Parnell
• Totem Symbols: Bear
• Styles: Canadian First Nations
• Categories: Pendants

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.

Eric Parnell

Born in 1961, Eric Parnell has been active as an artist since 2002. His cultural background is of the Haida Nation, on Haida Gwaii while his family is of the Eagle clan.  He has worked at many jobs over his life, but making simple sketches (“doodling”, as he calls it) was always a pleasure for him. His partner, also very artistic, began to notice his talent and encouraged him to devote more time to his drawings and to show them to the public. He took her advice and began to apply his art designs on jewellery, clothes and other forms. Eric studied the traditional Haida art form in books. Referencing them as silent teachers. Creating distinctive graphics Haida art form, within. Nature in life, and established artists before Eric, are his major influences.