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Historic Model Pole with Wings
Charlie James
CA$7,000.00Red Cedar wood, Paint
Circa 1920 – 1930’s
17.5 x 3.25 x 9″ (includes wing span)
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Orca & Prey Panel
Lyle Wilson
CA$7,000.00Red Cedar wood plank, Acrylic paint
This painting is a small scale version for which NUGWA (I/me) used as a reference to make a large 14 by 15 foot interior house-screen.
The painting is based on the format of a traditional GA-GA-BA-MOLTH (button blanket) in which a single, large image occupies the central field — in this case a HULL-CHEY-NAUCH (orca). An ochre-colour border contains multiple creatures: GLEE-CHAN (sea lion), SAWGUM (seal), and MIYA (salmon). Reversing the normal painting practice, it’s the background that’s painted; turning the images into “negative, woodgrain formline” creatures.
NUGWA don’t know if it was common knowledge in the olden days but NUGWANIS (we) now know that there are 2 types of HULL-CHEY-NAUCH: one type eats MIYA, and the other type hunts GLEE-CHAN and SAWGUM.
Lyle Wilson 2024
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Sea Bear Paddle
Moy Sutherland
CA$7,000.00Yellow Cedar wood, Abalone shell, Acrylic paint
Custom paddle stands available upon request – please inquire for details
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Gikumlth Mask
Calvin Hunt RCA
CA$7,000.00Red Cedar wood, Horse hair, Bear fur
14 x 11 x 8.5″ (Mask only)
20 x 16 x 8.5″ (including hair)
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Otter Woman Mask
Raymond Shaw
CA$7,000.00Red Cedar wood, Horse hair, Acrylic paint
13 x 10 x 5″ (mask only)
37 x 16 x 5″ (including hair)
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Genesis Triptych [Framed]
Susan Point RCA
CA$6,900.00From Left to Right:
Genesis – Grey
Serigraph, Variable Edition 23 of 30Genesis – Jade
Serigraph, Variable Edition 17 of 30Genesis – Orange/Brown
Serigraph, Variable Edition 26 of 3031 x 34 x 1.25″ (each)
31 x 102 x 1.25 (entire triptych)Currently on display at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
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Eagle Mask
Robert Saunders
CA$6,800.00Yellow Cedar wood, Cedar bark, Acrylic paint
25 x 12 x 16.5 ” including bark & stand
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Hummingbird Paddle
Angela Marston
CA$6,800.00Yellow Cedar wood, Copper, Cedar bark, Spruce root, Acrylic paint
Custom paddle stands available upon request – please inquire for details
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Raven & Human Mask
Eugene Alfred
CA$6,700.00Alder wood, Acrylic paint
9 x 5.5 x 2″ (mask only)
12 x 6.25 x 6.25″ (including stand) -
Ancestor Mask
Cole Speck
CA$6,700.00Red Cedar wood, Horse hair, Acrylic paint
11 x 9.5 x 5.5″ (mask only)
34 x 13 x 5.5″ (including hair) -
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White Raven Mask
Robert Saunders
CA$6,600.00Red Cedar wood, Cedar bark, Acrylic paint
11 x 25 x 11″ (mask only)
27 x 25 x 11″ (including bark & stand)Currently on display at the Westin Bayshore Hotel
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Thunderbird Rattle with Lightning Snake Base
Joshua Prescott
CA$6,600.00Yellow Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
4.5 x 5 x 14″ (rattle only)
9.75 x 5 x 11.5″ (with base)
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Eagle, Wolf & Raven Bentwood Box
Wilf J. Sampson
CA$6,600.00Red Cedar wood, Yellow Cedar wood, Operculum shell, Acrylic paint
Specific and unique to the Northwest Coast People is the bentwood or bent-corner box or container. A most outstanding item of the First Nations people, it is a made from one single plank of wood through a lengthy steaming process – a method strictly adapted by the coastal peoples.
The intelligent Eagle symbolizes status, power, peace and friendship, while the Raven is associated with Creation, Heroism, Transformation. The Wolf is a symbol of patience, individuality and protection.
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Raven Mask
Donald Svanvik
CA$6,600.00Red Cedar wood, Acrylic Paint, Clothe, Cedar bark
27 x 31 x 10.75″ (including stand)
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Ancestor Mask
Lyle Wilson
CA$6,500.00Red Cedar wood, Human hair, Acrylic paint
9 x 7.5 x 5.25″ (mask only)
14 x 10.5 x 5.25″ (including hair)The UBC’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) has 4 HAISLA ZUX˚UM (housepost) collected by the Methodist missionary, Dr. G. H. Raley; stationed at KITAMAAT fr. 1893-1906. He collected them from an old HAISLA village site called, WAYIGIWA.MIA’S — used seasonally as a fishing site on GICH-LAA-LEES-LA (Kitimat River). The attributed creation date of all the ZUX˚UM is circa 1850.
All the ZUX˚UM are covered with a dark-brown substance that was probably once a clear, protective coating. It took ten days to examine — inch-by-inch — and draw accurate renderings of what three of the ZUX˚UM originally looked like. The carver’s original intention is hidden beneath dark coatings; which emphasizes their sculptural appearance, but hides the painted details that originally gave the ZUX˚UM a much more lively and colourful appearance.
Earlier NUGWA (I/me) carved a new, larger ZUX˚UM based on the original A17797 (MOA’s Coll. Number for it)). NUGWA called this new ZUX˚UM “Thunderbird” because the painted images on its cheeks are reminiscent of a thunderbird’s re-curved beak (although the image can be interpreted in other ways).
This GEE-GA-MEE (mask) is painted similarly to the old HAISLA ZUX˚UM. NUGWA learned from those old ZUX˚UM — so “ANCESTOR” seemed appropriate as its title.
Lyle Wilson 2024
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Nawakala (Old Man) Mask
Lyle Wilson
CA$6,500.00Red Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
This NAWAKALA (old man) GEE-GA-MEE (mask) is carved from a piece of DIN-YAS (red cedar) that was brought down all the way from C’IMOTSA (KITAMAAT) to Vancouver.
NUGWA (I/me) knew it was destined to be a GEE-GA-MEE but it was awhile before finally getting around to carving it.
NUGWA didn’t know exactly what to carve so NUGWA took the piece of wood and thought about C’IMOTSA and some of the GUKALUT (fellow HAISLA people) that NUGWA knew while growing up there.
Some of the most memorable — and true — advice given to NUGWA was from some of the older folks. Their advice wasn’t always taken, but reflecting on it, later, the advice given was generally AIX (good).
Perhaps if their advice was taken more seriously, a great deal of my mistakes wouldn’t have happened.
When this GEE-GA-MEE was 85 percent finished, NUGWA wanted to add a few other things to it — it’s hard to explain but it somehow felt “incomplete”. So NUGWA put it away and over a decade later, NUGWA took another look at it.
Such a long wait is not that unusual in my art practice; in this case it was entirely the right thing to do as sometimes “less is more”.
The added details that NUGWA envisioned earlier now seemed obviously unnecessary, and would’ve detracted from the feeling of the NAWAKALA GEE-GA-MEE.
This GEE-GA-MEE celebrates some of those elder GUKALUT and tries to portray their subtle serenity — some had this knowing, enigmatic smile and their wrinkles only added to their look of wisdom and long-life experience.
Lyle Wilson 2024
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Killerwhale Rattle
Erich Glendale
CA$6,300.00Yellow Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
9 x 15 x 4.5″
14 x 15 x 4.5″ (including stand)