Great Ladder Pillow Canoe Our weavers carry our stories

Our weavers carry our stories and teachings

5 or men’s size 5

even when paddling hard

printed design

and squash of ancient plants have long been a mainstay of Native communities and remain a critical piece of food sovereignty

Great Ladder Pillow Canoe Our weavers carry our storiesThe 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;