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BASED IN THE HEART OF HAIDA GWAII SINCE 1984
CHF 164.00
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About the Design: The Gidansda Settee is a piece that came out of brothers, Jaalen and Gwaai’s research into the works of a historical Haida Master Artist of the Great Box, a 19th-century masterwork. The brother’s research took them to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, and later to the Chicago Field Museum, where they were able to see another box made by this master, as well as a settee, a chief’s chair. This work combines a design adapted from the box front with the concept of the settee. Inspired by both of these pieces, Jaalen went on to carve one of the only chief’s chairs to be made in the last century in Haida Gwaii.
Meet the Artist:
Jaalen Edenshaw is a Haida artist from Masset, Haida Gwaii. Although Jaalen has pieces in collections and museums around the world, he considers his most important works to be the ones that stay on Haida Gwaii. He feels a great debt to his homeland and has worked to highlight the environmental importance of land and sea and the Haida way of being.
