This esthetically pleasing showpiece table is 29" by 29" by 29".
The top of the table is deeply carved with a sun design. Eight rays project outwards. Four of them are Raven's heads. The centre of the sun is a human looking face. The sun is painted in traditional colours and there are many abalone inlays. The background is carved back for a 3d effect. The sides or edges of the table are carved with a raven and sun design.
The table legs are carved totem poles with thunderbirds at the top. Below are Dzunukwa figures holding coppers with eagle designs on them. At the bottom are ravens standing on human heads.
Raven lived in the land of spirits when the world was a watery darkness. He was bored so he journeyed for years contributing to the creation of the world we live in. The light of the world was kept in a series of bentwood box within each other. An old chief kept it hidden away because he hated people. Raven wanted the ball of light. He watched the chiefs daughter as she got water from a stream. He transformed himself into a hemlock needle and floated down the stream into her dipper and made her thirsty. She drank and swallowed the hemlock needle. She returned home impregnated with Raven inside her. A child was born and accepted into the family. The old chief came to love his grandchild who was actually Raven in disguise. The child cried and cried to play with the bentwood box. The doting grandfather eventually gave in to the child. Raven worked his way through the boxes until he accessed the ball of light. He immediately transformed back into Raven and flew out of the house through the smokehole in the roof taking the light with him. The fiery light burned his beautiful snow white feathers and turned them black. Raven placed the sun in the sky, and the moon and stars in the night sky.
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