Indigenous Handmade Earrings - Dreamcatcher

• 18k Gold Plated Hooks
• Wooden Dreamcatcher
• Leather Lace
• 4 Sacred Colours
  

Use of hide in Native creations from animals like steer, deer, elk, and bison is integral to the Native belief that an animal’s spirit lives on in the hide.

4 Sacred Colours

• Black: Emotional: West, Evening, Autumn, Sage, Bear
• Red: Mental: South, Afternoon, Summer, Cedar, Coyote.
• Yellow: Physical: East, Spring, Morning, Tobacco, Eagle.
• White: Spiritual: North, Night, Winter, Sweetgrass, Deer

The medicine wheel has four areas of a circle that have four different colours assigned to them. These colours are often yellow, red, black, and white. Different nations have different medicine wheel teachings based on their own stories, values, and beliefs and one is not more correct than another. The four colours embody concepts such as the Four Directions, four seasons, and sacred path of both the sun and human beings.

The number four is unique to the First Nations culture because everything is in the cycle of four. We have four seasons. We have four stages of life – infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. There are four directions – north, south, west and east. We have four types of life on earth – the four-legged, two-legged, winged ones, and water life.