Blackfish Tsimshian Beaver is often shown holding

Beaver is often shown holding a piece of wood with a scaled tail flipped up in front of the body

Butterfly is an increasingly prevalent figure in contemporary Northwest Coast art

Feathers generally symbolize respect

Others recount that this supernatural figure creates the boom of thunder as he flaps his wings in flight and is said to shoot lightning snakes from his eyes

Frog is a creature of great importance on the Northwest Coast

Blackfish Tsimshian Beaver is often shown holdingEdition 75 Available framed for $1,100 CAD. Please contact the gallery directly. The term blackfish refers to the old peoples' language interpretation of the Killer whale. In our language, we say maxinuxwk. We have many stories of our interactions with them, throughout our history. Some, who now use the blackfish as a clan symbol have deep spiritual and origin stories with them. They are regarded as our family under the sea and greatly respected for