Haida artist Bill Reid's acclaimed sculpture, The Raven and the First Men, is displayed in this gallery, alongside four exhibit cases featuring a selection of Reid's smaller masterworks in gold, silver, argillite, and wood. With the assistance of several other artists, Reid created his massive sculpture out of a giant block of laminated yellow cedar. Depicted is a moment in the ancestral past of the Haida people when Raven, a wise and powerful yet mischievous trickster, has just found the first humans in a clam shell on the beach, and is coaxing them out of it.
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Sanibeljac 70 months ago | reply
I just found this interesting photo in Explore...thanks for the explanation, too.
StarShutterMouse 60 months ago | reply
A stunning photograph of this work.
I've seen it, and it IS magnificent.
Could you add two more tags, please?
"Bill Reid" and "Haida Art"
Thanks so much.
StarShutterMouse 58 months ago | reply
People Should Google "Ninstints" to learn more about the Haida People and their home. It has been named a World Heritage Site. It's an Island among the Queen Charlotte Islands. Off limits to all without a permit, it is a guarded site. Several excellent books on the subject.
Mrs Logic 32 months ago | reply
Carved from one piece of wood? That's some achievement, given the different directions of the parts and the woodgrain. It is beautiful, and in a perfect setting.