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Tan drum with colourful butterfly in the center and flowers with a pinted gold frame, on a yellow background.
Tan drum with colourful shimmering butterfly in the center and flowers with a painted gold frame, on a yellow background.
Butterfly Haida Art Drum by Danielle Louise Allard on a yellow background.
Close up of corner of drum with shiny gold paint and flowers.
Tan drum with colourful butterfly in the center and flowers with a painted gold frame, on a yellow background with persons hands on left side.
Painted butterfly with shimmering highlights and pink flowers with green leaves on a tan hide with yellow wall.
Tan drum with colourful butterfly in the center and flowers with a pinted gold frame, on a yellow background.
Tan drum with colourful shimmering butterfly in the center and flowers with a painted gold frame, on a yellow background.

'Tea Time - stl'aKam Butterfly' Haida Drum Design by Danielle Louise Allard

$3,500.00
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Locally Made
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Free shipping to Canada & USA. Tariff-exempt to the USA. 

Own a piece of unique art that honours Haida history and the women who are shaping it. This is the last remaining drum in this hand-painted tea time series by Danielle Louise Allard. 

Entitled Tea Time - stl'aKam Butterfly, this drum is inspired by Danielle Louise Allard's great-grandmother, the late Florence Edenshaw Davidson’s famed bone china tea collection. The drum features a stl'aKam (butterfly), feminized through Danielle’s unique approach to delicate formline design. Further details pay homage to fine tea china, including hand-painted florals and delicate gold leaf. This drum sets the stage to reflect on history and artwork as one.

Florence Edenshaw Davidson (1896 - 1993), who is celebrated and fondly remembered through this piece, was a respected Haida elder, a renowned artist in weaving and button blanket-making, and the daughter of Charles Edenshaw. She became more widely known through her collaborative autobiography, During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson: A Haida Woman, written with the anthropologist Margaret B. Blackman and published in 1982.

The photo here shows Florence with her own tea collection (photo source: National Geographic). 

  • Material: Drum, acrylic paint
  • Dimensions: 16" x 16" x 3.5"
  • Includes a drumstick with a tea cup handle

About the artist: Danielle Louise Allard (Haida name Skil Jaday) of the Yahgu'jaanaas clan comes to Haida formline design from a more than 20-year-established art practice in fine arts, painting and fashion design. In 2020, she returned home to Haida Gwaii with the goal of immersing herself in the Haida arts. With the support of her mentor, master Haida artist Christian White, Danielle deepened her understanding of the principles and discipline of formline design. Today, her work embodies a feminine flow, merging her Haida heritage with the unique strengths shaped through her broader artistic practice.

See more artwork by Danielle Louise Allard, or explore our Haida drum and Haida art collection. 
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