Some deep thinkers and very artistic people had created this work. So formline design, which makes Haida art so distinctive, suggests a belief in art for art’s sake? Our whole culture was ...

Europeans and their American relatives have praised the art of the Haida people of Haida Gwaii, the islands south of Alaska designated on maps as the Queen Charlottes, since first encountering it ...

Bill Reid was a Haida artist who blended modern aesthetics with Indigenous arts through goldsmithing, jewelry making, writing and more. Throughout his career, he researched Indigenous art ...

(Tlingit and Haida) didn’t know till a couple years ago ... Heinmiller in the early 1960s to revitalize Northwest Coast art in Haines. At the time, the two artists worked in several different ...

One of the most powerful supernatural beings of Haida mythology is the elusive Dogfish Woman, who derives her shamanic powers from the dogfish (a small shark). Seen here in her human form, the snout ...

Depictions of the Bear Mother story on totem poles and other forms of Northwest Coast art have been occurring for hundreds ... and their cubs in the Spirit of Haida Gwaii, the internationally renowned ...