Ukixt Tseqw Skukume (Sea Serpent) Pendant by Greg A. Robinson, Chinook Nation

Pendant depicting Ukixt Tseqw Skukume (Sea Serpents), 2014by Greg A. Robinson, Chinook Nationhand carved yellow cedar, leather cord7 high x 2 wide x .5 Inches deepA pendant such as this would have been created by a master carver to be worn by a person of high status. According to Chinookan mythology, water serpents inhabited the dark, dangerous holes in the Columbia River. Ferocious and formidable, it is believed only Coyote was powerful enough to defeat such monsters. The Chinook Indian Nation is a confederation of the five most western tribes, the Lower Chinook, Clatsop, Willapa, Wahkiakum and Cathlamet located in SW Washington State near the mouth of the Columbia River. Greg A. Robinson, born in 1957, is a member of the Chinook Indian Nation located in Bay Center, Washington. Primarily self taught, Robinson has been an artist since childhood, with an early fascination for wildlife and tribal art after receiving a small carved canoe as a gift. He sold his first work of art in junior