Great Ladder Pillow Lynda Teller Pete gold-plated brass ear hooks

gold-plated brass ear hooks

In the traditional style of northern Northwest Coast art

At the heart of her design

which is accented by geometric designs on a turquoise band

Michelle’s design is a meditation on intentionality

Great Ladder Pillow Lynda Teller Pete gold-plated brass ear hooksThe mountains are a great ladder, stretching up and up to bridge the land and sky worlds. Artist and carver Andrea Wilbur Sigo (Squaxin Island) has taken this classic Coast Salish Great Ladder weaving design and reimagined it for her Great Ladder Pillow. "'The Great Ladder' is the entryway to the sky world: a world that is just as important to our people as the land world and the underwater world. The mountains are the ladder to this beautiful place;