Northwest Coast peoples were maritime engineers who mastered the
art of building dugout canoes from gigantic red cedars, using only
tools made from bone, stone, and wood. Ubiquitous, these elegant
craft were used for everyday and ceremonial purposes, for fishing,
hunting and trading, for feasting and potlatching, and in
warfare--they were the keys that unlocked the treasure chest of the
North Pacific.
"Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe" tells the story of the Northwest
Canoe from its zenith in pre-contact times, through its decline in
the late nineteenth century, to its revival in "Lootaas (Wave
Eater)" which Bill Reid built for Expo '86, to its culmination with
the Tribal Canoe Journeys of the twenty-first century and "The
Spirit of Haida Gwaii" sculptures. Bill Reid expressed awe for the
traditional Haida canoe and what it represents visually,
symbolically, and culturally. In his words, "Western art starts
with the figure--West Coast Indian art starts with the canoe."
The successive journeys of "Lootaas" were significant stages in
Bill Reid's work, which culminated with the iconic sculpture "The
Spirit of Haida Gwaii," a monumental bronze canoe filled to
overflowing with creatures of Haida mythology (currently featured
on the Canadian twenty-dollar bill). As a final creative act Bill
Reid requested that, at the end of his life, his ashes be
transported in "Lootaas" paddled by a crew of his Haida friends and
relatives to Tanu, his grandmother's village in Gwaii Haanas.
The story is told through writings and artworks by Bill Reid, vivid
photographs by Phillip Hersee, Ulli Steltzer, Robert Semeniuk and
others, texts by James Raffan, Martine J. Reid, and Mike Robinson
and first-hand accounts by First Nations paddlers.
"Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe" is a companion book to the Bill
Reid and the Haida Canoe exhibition mounted by the Bill Reid
Gallery of Northwest Coast Art and touring to the Canadian Canoe
Museum in Peterborough, Ontario.
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