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Item: 2
Artist: Gerry Sheena
Title: Salmon Spindle Whorl, 12/12
Date: 2001
Size: 16" diameter x 21" L
Medium: glass, stainless steel
Description: In Salish cosmology, spindle whorls are important in encouraging salmon to run in the rivers – the pumping motion of a spinning spindle whorl is thought to pump the salmon out of the sea and into the Fraser River.
Donor: Douglas Reynolds Gallery

Estimated value: $1,650