Haida Carver

Release Year
1964
Runtime
12m
Genres
Documentary
Directed By
Richard Gilbert
Haida Carver

On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film follows the artist to the island where he finds the stone, and then shows how he carves it in the manner of his grandfather, who taught him the craft.

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