This elegant sterling silver pendant by Musqueam artist Chris Sparrow features five swimming salmon. As an important traditional food source of the Northwest Coast; images of salmon symbolize immortality, wealth, rebirth and abundance.
Chris Sparrow is a Coast Salish artist from the Musqueam Nation. He learned to carve from his late father, Irving Sparrow and by age nine he had completed his first carving. Sparrow’s unique carving style is traditional with a contemporary fluidity that’s influenced by the flow and movement of the land and sea animals he observed as a child on the Salish Seas.
Although best known as a wood carver, Sparrow works in many mediums, such as glass, paint, screen printing, soapstone and silver. In 2025, he was commissioned to create a gold medal for the HSBC SVNS Vancouver rugby tournament and also held his first solo exhibit “Unique Salish Art” at Science World in Vancouver. Sparrow currently lives and works in Campbell River, BC.
