3 5/8" by 2 1/4". Original Tsimshian design. Hand engraved.
"Sunburst effect, bringer of light. The central crest is ambiguous - its identity is behind it, precursor". Corey Moraes
The light of the world was kept in a series of bentwood boxes nested 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. Before that time there was only darkness.
