Wooden feast bowl flanked by the carved images of two bears, anonymous Haida artist, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, ca. 1820…
Carved club depicting a man with a killer whale helmet. Possibly a Kungit Haida piece from southern part of Haida Gwaii. Probably collected by G.M. Dawson.
Carved club depicting a man with a killer whale helmet. Possibly a Kungit Haida piece from southern part of Haida Gwaii. Probably collected by G.M. Dawson.
Native American literature, the traditional oral and written literatures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. These include ancient hieroglyphic and pictographic writings of Middle America as well as an extensive set of folktales, myths, and oral histories that were transmitted for centuries by storytellers.
Mask and blanket display Art works created by students of the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art located at the 'Ksan Historical Village.
Discover aboriginal grandeur with the top 70 best Haida tattoo designs for men. Explore cool tribal ink ideas from the Pacific coast with red and black ink.
In the 1820s American and British traders traveled to the Northwest Coast to procure sea otter pelts for the Chinese market. A secondary trade in ethnographic artifacts developed and Northwest Coas…
With incredible precision through a diversity of materials, Charles Edenshaw evoked the beauty of traditional Haida art at a time when this First Nations culture was on the precipice of disappearing.
