Mangyepsa Gyipaayg, Kandi McGilton, is an artist from Metlakatla, Alaska on Annette Island. A student of renowned master weavers Delores Churchill and Holly Churchill, McGilton works to perpetuate the Annette Island style of Tsimshian basket weaving. In 2015, McGilton co-founded the Haayk Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to revitalize Sm'algyax, the Tsimshian language. She began teaching at the Totem Heritage Center in 2019. Her classes have included cedar bark plaiting, Annette Island style weaving, and weaving over glass bottles.

This woven bottle is made with red cedar bark with canary grass false embroidery in the "cresting wave" design. The woven bottle was created when McGilton taught the Intermediate/Advanced Level Cedar Bark Weaving - Glass Bottles in 2024. Students learned the intricacies of weaving cedar bark over glass bottles utilizing false embroidery for design elements.

"This piece was woven during the bottle class I was teaching to show students step by step the process of weaving around a form. It not only helps the students visually, but it helps me as I'm teaching, reminds me of the small details I need to pass on to them that I might otherwise forget."

- Mangyepsa Gyipaayg, Kandi McGilton