35. Raven and His Family Mask
Availability: Only 1 available
by Ben Davidson
Cast Forton, Aluminum paint, simulated “Gun Metal” patina finish
Limited Edition of 9
20 x 20 x 12″
$13,500.00 CAD
Only 1 available
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Cast Forton, Aluminum paint, simulated “Gun Metal” patina finish
Limited Edition of 9
20 x 20 x 12″
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Ancestor Stylized Mask
Joe David
$9,000.00 CADRed Cedar Wood, Acrylic Paint, Cedar Bark
13 x 8.25 x 9″ (including bark)
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Eagle Transforming Mask
Simon James
$7,800.00 CADRed Cedar wood, Cedar bark, Acrylic paint
Articulated
Size when opened: 12 x 43 x 15″
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Welcome Figure Mask
Joe David
$6,000.00 CADRed Cedar wood, Human hair, Acrylic paint
This Welcome Figure portrait mask, based on a Nuu chah nulth mask from the 1850’s, would be danced during a ceremonial welcome song which belongs to the David family of the Tla-O-Qui-Aht clan. Smoked elk hide has been rigged to the back of the piece to hold it securely in place when being danced.
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Echo
Ben Davidson
RESERVEDSerigraph, Edition of 21
2018
Unframed
(For inquiries on custom framing, please contact the gallery)
“My father’s understanding of Greatest Echo, is that this supernatural being has the ability to echo the past and bring it into the future. We dance the Greatest Echo masks to remind ourselves of our responsibility to learn the knowledge of the previous generations and to make that knowledge meaningful in our daily lives.
Yellow is echoed in each of these [designs]. It represents the knowledge of our ancestors. Our knowledge was strong before contact. It was passed from generation to generation without threat. Attempts to assimilate us and erase our identities through colonization resulted in our knowledge being muted; this was a dark period in our history. However, despite this, we continued to pass on our knowledge to our children.
Today, our connection to this ancient knowledge is emerging once again. We must continue to move forward, but, as my tsinii told my father, ‘You have to look back once and a while to see where you came from, so you can always find your way back.’”
– Ben Davidson, 2018
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Tide Walker
Ben Davidson
$850.00 CADSerigraph, Edition of 77
2017
Unframed
(For inquiries on custom framing, please contact the gallery)
Ben Davidson’s Tide Walker is a remarkably expressive serigraph by one of the Northwest Coast’s foremost artists. The blend of traditional and contemporary formlines, as well as the use of rich and saturated colour, joins to create an aesthetic that is distinctly a Ben Davidson work.
Below are the artist’s own words regarding this piece:
“Tide Walker exists in the space between the land and the ocean. From afar, he appears as a dorsal fin, so we imagine his body beneath the waves. We are so desperate to be the first to see the killer whale that we allow our minds to complete his story before we have time to determine the truth. We are so swiftly lured into believing the surface story that we rarely take time to consider what lies beneath.” (Davidson, 2017).
Ben Davidson is an internationally-renowned contemporary First Nations artist. He is the son of Robert Davidson, also of international fame. Ben stays true to his Haida ancestry, while always pushing the boundaries of traditional artwork.