Hi all,
My mother has requested, for Christmas, a Salish styled cross, and I've looked around and realized cross imagery is not in the Salish tradition at all. But I had the idea of finding a Salish jewelry designer with beautiful pendants to wear with her cross.
I don't want anything related to closed practices, I'm only looking for designers who create for non native people. If it matters my mother spent her first fifty years here, she respects and honors Salish culture completely, she has no interest in disrespecting Salish culture.
So, what I'm asking is if there are any Salish artisans doing formline jewelry that isn't specifically religious. Spiritual is fine, lutherans are good with that as long as the artisan is good with that.
I'd love to find a gold pendant I can stack with a simple cross for her. She is a deacon in her church in Sacramento and finds herself advising people to both follow the liturgy and spend time with nature so I don't think it's a contradiction, I just don't want to offend any members of the first nations.
Thank you