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The Spirit of Haida Gwaii by Bill Reid CM11-22

The Spirit of Haida Gwaii by Bill Reid CM11-22

Description : Bronze sculpture at Vancouver Internatioal Aiiport.
The Haida are one of Canada,s First Nations. Their ancestral territory — shown on current maps as the Queen Charlotte Islands, off the coast of British Columbia — is known to most of those who live there now as the Islands of the People, Haida Gwaii.

For centuries before Europeans arrived on the west coast of North America, the Haida built beachfront villages of large, square wooden houses fronted by totem poles. As islanders, fishermen and active traders, they were also skilled in the making and handling of large, seagoing dugout canoes.

Haida artist Bill Reid, who was born in 1920 and died in 1998, made several of these traditional dugout canoes, carved some of the finest twentieth-century totem poles, and built several traditional Haida houses as well.

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