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This package explores examples of Haida cultural expression and technologies, including bentwood boxes, weavings, and carvings in argillite and silver, in order to showcase the continued innovation of Haida artists and the standard of excellence to which Haida artists hold their work.
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Package Activities are project-based activities designed to accommodate one or more classes. These activities involve the use of historical thinking concepts while exploring the whole package, resulting in a more comprehensive experience.
In this video, award-winning Haida weaver Ariane Xay Kuyaas shows us a hlíing dajángée (spruce-root hat). Ariane points out distinct characteristics of this dajáng (hat) that led her to identify it as a work of Isabella and Charles Edenshaw, her great-great-grandparents.
The first is the declaration of the islands of the South Moresby group of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) as a National Historic Site focussed on the three ancient villages of Skedans, Tanu and Skungwai (Ninstints).
Raven’s Tail and Chilkat are two forms of textile weaving practiced by Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian artists. Though both forms of weaving use textiles, their designs and styles are very different. The designs of the Raven’s Tail are geometric.
Haida artists have been carving argillite to sell to collectors since the early 19th century. An art practice unique to the Haida, argillite carvings can depict oral histories and crests, as well as figures from origin stories and even contemporary events.
On their island homeland along the Northwest Coast, the Haida fashioned a world of outstanding artistic expression, adding beauty, power and meaning to objects as simple as fish hooks and as grand as totem poles.
Spirit. Art. will be presented in Greece, at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, from October 26, 2015 to April 20, 2016. The exhibition will introduce audiences in Greece to the remarkable sophistication and complexity of the Haida culture of Canada’s Pacific Northwest Coast.
One of the most distinct characteristics of Haida 2-D and 3-D art (painting and carving), formline is also characteristic of the art of neighbouring nations on the northern Northwest Coast, each one having its own recognizable style. In this package, we focus on examples of formline in Haida art.