Haida art
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Haida art is the traditional visual and material culture of the Haida people of the Pacific Northwest Coast, renowned for its complex formline designs, monumental totem poles, and intricately carved and painted objects that express Haida history, identity, and spirituality.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Haida art canonical | 2 |
| Haida totem poles | 1 |
| Northwest Coast formline design | 1 |
Statements (85)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous art tradition
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Northwest Coast art ⓘ cultural heritage ⓘ material culture ⓘ visual art ⓘ |
| artForm |
argillite carving
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bentwood boxes ⓘ button blankets ⓘ chest and box design ⓘ contemporary sculpture ⓘ gold jewelry ⓘ house frontal poles ⓘ mask making ⓘ mortuary poles ⓘ painted house screens ⓘ printmaking ⓘ shame poles ⓘ silver jewelry ⓘ totem pole carving ⓘ weaving ⓘ wood carving ⓘ |
| country |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalFunction |
ceremonial use
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expressing clan identity ⓘ recording history ⓘ spiritual communication ⓘ status display ⓘ |
| culturalPropertyOf | Haida Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOfOrigin | Haida people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableArtist |
Bill Reid
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Charles Edenshaw ⓘ Freda Diesing ⓘ Isabel Rorick NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Hart ⓘ Robert Davidson ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
19th century
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20th century revival ⓘ contemporary period ⓘ pre-contact era ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Haida cosmology
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Haida oral tradition ⓘ forest environment ⓘ marine environment ⓘ potlatch ceremonies ⓘ |
| languageContext | Haida language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material |
argillite
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cedar bark ⓘ copper ⓘ gold ⓘ red cedar ⓘ silver ⓘ wool ⓘ yellow cedar ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
S-forms
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U-forms ⓘ bold black primary lines ⓘ complex curvilinear shapes ⓘ formline design ⓘ minimal use of negative space ⓘ ovoid forms ⓘ red secondary elements ⓘ |
| preservedIn |
ceremonial houses
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community collections ⓘ museums ⓘ |
| recognizedFor |
aesthetic sophistication
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symbolic complexity ⓘ technical mastery of carving ⓘ |
| region |
Haida Gwaii
ONNED1
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Pacific Northwest Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Kwakwaka'wakw art
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Tlingit art ⓘ Tsimshian art ⓘ |
| revival | 20th century cultural renaissance ⓘ |
| theme |
Bear
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Eagle ⓘ Frog ⓘ Killer Whale ⓘ Raven ⓘ ancestral histories ⓘ clan crests ⓘ lineage identity ⓘ mythological beings ⓘ spiritual beliefs ⓘ supernatural beings ⓘ |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Northwest Coast formline design
subject surface form:
Eagle (Haida mythology)
this entity surface form:
Haida totem poles