Skidegate House Models: From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond - Hardcover
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Skidegate House Models: From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond
Explores the Skidegate model village carved by Haida artists for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
In 1892 seventeen Haida artists were commissioned to carve a model of HlGaagilda Llnagaay (the village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia) for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. The Skidegate model, featuring twenty-nine large houses and forty-two poles, is the only known model village in Nort...
Robin K. Wright is professor emerita of art history at the University of Washington, Seattle, and curator emerita of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Her award-winning books include A Time of Gathering and Northern Haida Master Carvers. Recent books include In the Spirit of the Ancestors (coedited with Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse) and Charles Edenshaw (coedited with Diana Augaitis).
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Robin K. Wright, Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse (Editor), Nika Collison (Foreword by)
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