The Wolf Face Carnelian Ring is a sterling silver band set with a carnelian stone and carved on the metal beside it with the face of a wolf seen head-on. Carnelian is a reddish orange chalcedony, its surface polished smooth here so the warm color carries against the worked silver around it. The carving stops at the face, with no body and no landscape behind it, so the ring is a portrait rather than a scene and the eyes hold the whole composition. The wolf stands for instinct trusted before reasoning and for loyalty inside a group, worn as a symbol rather than as a religious piece.
