NFB Collection
Haida Carver
196412 min 13 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Richard Gilbert
Production: Richard Gilbert
Script: Richard GilbertWilliam Weintraub
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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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > British ColumbiaVisual Arts and Architecture
- Visual Arts > Carving and SculptureIndigenous ArtWestern Canada
Credits
- director
- Richard Gilbert
- producer
- Richard Gilbert
- writer
- Richard Gilbert
- commentary
- William Weintraub
- camera
- François Séguillon
- editing
- Dennis Sawyer
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- music
- Eldon Rathburn
- participant
- Robert Davidson