Great Ladder Pillow Monica Nuvamsa The Teller-Pete-Ornelas family is known

The Teller-Pete-Ornelas family is known the world over for their incredible wool textiles

all parts of the wool blanket production takes place in the same area—the sheep are raised and tended

Giizh used glass beads and porcupine quills to illustrate a strawberry and flower

It also honors and speaks of the ancient knowledge and traditions passed down from their ancestors

Michelle is well known for keeping traditional Acoma Pueblo pottery designs thriving across all manner of modern products

Great Ladder Pillow Monica Nuvamsa The Teller-Pete-Ornelas family is knownThe 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;