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Six Rivers Jade

Beau W Saunders is an award winning jade carver based in Humboldt County

Through Six Rivers Jade, he sources nephrite jade from Northern California and carves simple, natural forms that honor the stone’s unique character.

The story of jade is a story about place, written in the curves and creases of the ancient landscapes we inhabit. After subduction, uplift, and erosion, jade moves downriver into our heart, giving form to nature’s many expressions. For millennia it has been shaped, carved, polished, and admired for its durability, feel, and beauty. Today it remains a rich and varied medium, with unique expressions from  sources around the world.

Northern California is home to several jade-bearing streams, creeks, and rivers—hence the name Six Rivers Jade. Shifting with the rise and fall of mountain flows, jade migrates from the mountains toward the ocean, waiting for the moment when one journey ends and another begins.

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Land Acknowledgement

Across California’s North Coast—on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Wiyot people—I honor Wiyot sovereignty and the neighboring Nations connected to these lands and waters, including Yurok, Karuk, Hupa (Hoopa Valley), Wailaki, Shasta, and Tolowa Dee-ni’. Along the Klamath, Trinity, Baduwa’t (Mad River), Eel, Van Duzen, and Smith rivers, I avoid ceremonial and culturally sensitive places and keep a low-impact, non-extractive practice—gathering only a limited number of stones with care and respect for the enduring spirit of these lands and their stewards.

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