Ancestor Spirit Boards

Description: An Aleut, John J. Hoover has carved and ploy-chromed cedar panels in a contemporary interpretive Northwest Coast design. The figures represent totems (Ancestor figures). Wolf, Eagle, Raven, Whale, Salmon, Bear, from left to right. John Hoover’s artwork is a unique blending of traditional symbolic concepts tempered by a highly personal interpretive approach. There is balance in Hoover’s carved and painted work contrasting sharply with the strength and symbolic content of his pieces.