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Tania Larsson creates Gwich’in Fine Jewellery with opulent materials that transcends time. She apprenticed under renowned jeweler Keri Ataumbi for two years.

Born and raised in France, Tania Larsson is of Gwich’in and Swedish descent. At the age of fifteen, she moved to Canada with her family to reconnect with her culture and her land. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts with a focus in jewelry and digital arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts in May 2017. Tania is a founding member of Dene Nahjo, a non-profit organization that focuses on cultural revitalization projects. She has consistently sought opportunities to deepen her understanding of history and culture and to apply this learning to her artistic work. Combining her traditional skills and contemporary art education, she strives to create pieces inspired by her culture and to bring pride to indigenous people and imbue all people with knowledge.

08/12/2025

Latest jewellery release 🖤

05/01/2025

It’s been 12 years since my mom passed away and I miss her as much today as the last time I got to hug her. Many knew her as Shirley Firth the Olympian skier, but I knew her as Mom. I still remember asking her, when I was 15 year old, to tell me what she had actually done? Had she gone to the actual real Olympics? And how many? Cause I needed to know “that stuff” before moving to Canada. I didn’t know not everyone had a poster of their mom on the wall in their homes 😅🤭 it’s still intriguing how she viewed all of that as her past life and focused on the present, on us, on her family! She was the most powerful woman I have ever known and I work everyday to find my own power.

Love you mom ❤️

04/15/2025

All my love to the family and many friends of the wonderful Margaret Mary Boulanger. She filled every moment next to her with warmth. Our community, the north will miss her beautiful smile. She cheered so many of us on.

Her service will be today, on Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Patrick in Somba K’e [Yellowknife]. The service will begin at noon, with a viewing for the public starting at 11am. Following mass, we will lay her to rest in Lakeview Cemetery.

Afterwards please join us for a reception, feast and drum dance to celebrate Margaret in the Great Hall of the Legislative Assembly in Somba K’e [Yellowknife] at 5:30pm.

We will have her family gathered to share stories and reflections on the teachings that Margaret imparted on us, with an open mic for the community to share some words.

Mahsi cho.

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04/10/2025

Spring Heartbreak - A Pose
Something Vintage, Something New, Something Borrowed, the Sky is blue!
Back home in Yellowknife for good, working on new pieces in the studio as hide tanning season is upon us 💕

03/29/2025

I released some new handmade jewellery pieces on my website! I had fun working with horn these past couple months. I spent time cutting and shaping the horn to highlight the beauty found within it.

03/14/2025

My friend Amos invited me to drive out to the Barren Lands so I could help him fix his trailer and while out there look for caribou parts that were left behind on the land for my work.

So after driving north for 6 -7 hours on the ice road we arrived at MacKay Lake Lodge where we were able to replace the broken spring on his trailer in -35 degree weather which felt more like -45 with the wind chill.

The next day we started early by driving further north to find harvesting sites and gathered many caribou heads for the brains that I need when tanning hides. He helped me by cutting off antlers while I looked around for broken ones in the snow to make jewellery. We found the bottom of caribou legs which I took back to skin and make hide tanning tools. And I found a lot of partial hides that I could only salvaged to use for Caribou tufting because they were already cut up. We put some to***co down to say Mahsi to the Caribou for all the gifts we took back with us.

Every year we see pictures of harvesting sites and sadly all the parts that are left behind on the land so it felt good to be able to go get some and put them to use in my work.

When we started driving back the other spring on the trailer broke, thankfully he had brought a spare one so we drove back to the lodge slowly. This time the wind was deadly while we worked on the trailer feeling more like -55 degrees. We had to be careful not to get frostbit, but manage to get it fixed in under an hour.

On the drive home we saw some caribou in the no hunting zone and a big black wolf on the ice road.

All in all, it was such a good trip and I’m so thankful for my new Baffin winter boots I got from that are rated at -100 degree, my feet stayed warm and toasty the whole time! In the 8th video you can hear the ice road crackling under my feet. It totally made my stomach drop but I reminded myself that way bigger trucks drive on this road.

03/04/2025

It was such a pleasure to create the jewellery for my dear friend to attend the Oscars for the movie .

She wanted big earrings for this special night so I beaded and tufted some rose buds using Vintage orange beads to represent Every Children Matters. I included some antique French green steel cut beads and some faceted Carnelian beads. Then I sliced some muskox horn and shaped them to size, then sanded them all down to be as light as possible.

I paired those earrings with a statement ring that was beaded and caribou tufted. She also needed something to attach her eagle feather so I created a hair tie using vintage orange beads, sterling silver and caribou hide.

She wore a beautiful custom gown with a striking cuff and a gorgeous beaded purse.

02/13/2025

Snow moon out at .deneadventures

12/11/2024

Love muskox horn!! New pieces on my website!

tufting

12/04/2024

Different stages of sanding bison 🦬 horn, from the cut, rough machine shaping, using the flex shaft, to hand sanding and final polish!

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Yellowknife, NT

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http://www.TaniaLarsson.com/

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