COPPER CANOE WOMAN - PADDLE SONG | GOLD
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Description
Size: 3″ long X3/4″ wide
Light-weight
Abalone inlay
A design dedicated to the continuation of glwa (canoe) culture.
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Yáu I’m Vina Brown, owner and artist at Copper Canoe Woman Creations.
My ancestral Haíłzaqvḷa name is ƛ̓áqvas gḷ́w̓aqs, which roughly translates to Copper Canoe Woman.
I create modern, on-trend, Indigenous jewelry that’s infused with elements of my coastal Indigenous culture and identity. I design pieces I want to wear, big statement pieces with a deep connection to ancestral strength and elegance.
I’m inspired by the natural realm, living in the present time, and constantly having to choose every day to honor the Earth. Always, I am also inspired by my family and from within my culture. I come from weavers and beaders, through both my Haíłzaqv and Nuučaan̓uł families. We have a history of loving beauty and wearing our culture on ourselves that stretches beyond linear timelines.
Through art I’ve become connected to my roots in ways I never imagined. This journey has been an unraveling, a reclamation of Indigenous womanhood and of creation. I am grateful for my identity, my culture, that I carry in this physical realm, and I am grateful for you. Without your support it would be so much harder to be vulnerable and share parts of my soul I’d otherwise keep hidden. I am grateful to be my true self with you. All work comes from kind intentions and hopefully my most authentic self.
I hope you are good, I hope you are taken care of, sending you light and love.
Tkleco, Tkleco.
- Vina Brown