The native people of North America see all people, animals, plants and objects as having a spirit as well as a substance. Also, they chose an eagle as the symbol to represent this spirit. In their stories, pictures or artwork, the eagle often illustrates a spirit power.

"Eagle Kachina": 24 Karat Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver, Turquoise Pendant/Necklace, 1.75"(L), 18" Chain, $3,000.00.

About Kachinas:

"With the coming of spring, I start preparing the soil in my garden for the planting of my corn and vegetables. It reminds me of a time in the early 1990s when I had been invited to experience a Native American Spring Kachina Dance ceremony at a Hopi village in the Southwest United States.

The Corn Kachina Dancers dressed and painted themselves in beautiful traditional regalia. About three dozen of them danced four days in ceremony, blessing their recently planted corn seeds. This ancient traditional ceremony honored and called on the spiritual powers of the physical universe to help grow the corn in what had been the challenging desert lands of the Hopi people for thousands of years. The dancers wore wooden masks and created otherworldly-sounding prayerful songs to the seeds, rain, sun, and all the powers necessary to grow the corn. Everyone gathered around the ceremony received gifts of food and the tribal children received small, carved, wooden dolls that replicated the dancers. After singing for a while the dancers went into underground ceremonial Kiva rooms to pray to the earthly powers.

I have incorporated many of the Native American ways of honoring the spiritual powers of creation into my life and art. From this inspirational source, I create jewelry and sculptures that depict the Kachina powers I have experienced in similar ceremonies all over our magical planet Earth.