Learning to Carve Argillite

Robert Davidson , Sara Florence Davidson
Illustrated by Janine Gibbons
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Learning to Carve Argillite

Robert Davidson , Sara Florence Davidson
Illustrated by Janine Gibbons
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CANADIAN6-8 YEARS40 PAGESENGLISH

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  • Appropriate for: Ages 6-8 Years
  • Published date: Sep 28, 2021
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 40
  • Publisher: PORTAGE & MAIN PRESS
  • ISBN: 9781553799849
  • Dimensions: 8.3" W x 0.45" L x 9.0" H

Sara Florence Davidson (she/her/hers) is a Haida/Settler Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Previously, she was an educator working with adolescents in the K-12 in British Columbia and Yukon Territory. Sara is the co-author of Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony, which she wrote with her father, and Magical Beings of Haida Gwaii, which she wrote with her stepmother, Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson. When she is not reading or writing, Sara can be found walking with her dogs, drinking tea, or listening to stories and learning something new.

Robert Davidson is one of the most respected and important contemporary artists in Canada. A Northwest Coast native of Haida descent, he is a master carver of totem poles and masks and works in a variety of other media as a printmaker, painter, and jeweller. A leading figure in the renaissance of Haida art and culture, Robert is best known as an impeccable craftsman whose creative and personal interpretation of traditional Haida form is unparalleled.

Janine Gibbons, a Haida Raven of the Double-Fin Killer Whale Clan, Brown Bear House, is a multi-disciplinary artist and award-winning illustrator. Janine''s works are inspired by the waters and lands of the Pacific Northwest, and their myriad colours, energies, and languages. Janine graduated from the Art Institute of Seattle and Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Janine has illustrated four books in the Sealaska Heritage''s Baby Raven Reads series, including Raven Makes the Aleutians, an AIYLA Honor Book, and most recently Nang Jáadaa Sg̱áana ''Láanaa aa Isdáayaan (The Woman Carried Away by Killer Whales), which is entirely in the Haida language Xaad Kíl.

A quiet, beautiful meditation on how traditions are kept alive by passing them down from one generation to the next, by remembering the ways things were so we can more clearly see the way things can be. Shaped by youth, under the watchful guidance of Elders, like etchings in argillite.

- David A. Robertson

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