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HAIDA Gwaii Grade 5 students visit the carvers while they work at the Haida Heritage Centre.
Keeping traditions alive
From page 13
August 15 raising at Hlk’yah GawGa (Windy Bay) on Lyell Island, followed by a community celebration Aug. 17. Next week, however, he’s scheduled to take a break from carving to pay a visit to the Lower Mainland to share the story at a number of sites, including the West Vancouver Memorial Library, Sunday, March 3 at 2 p.m. Edenshaw, an experienced carver and member of the Ts’aahl — Eagle Clan of the Haida Nation, was born in Masset. He was exposed to the art at a young age, following in the footsteps of his father and other extended family members. “It was happening around me and it was sort of a natural thing for me to start helping out when I was younger and I got into it that way,” he says. Providing further inspiration was a pole housed inside an old boat shed he lived in while growing up for a number of years. Now a married father of three, he’s glad his own children can likewise grow up with the art in their midst and as they get older, he increasingly encourages them to lend a hand on his projects. Keeping Haida traditions alive is important to Edenshaw and apart from his work on the legacy pole, he’s also currently working on animated Haida language videos for children, hoping the use of the modern medium will help preserve the language for future generations.
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“I’ve been trying to learn Haida all my life also and it’s pretty close to just a few speakers left really,” he says. “Once I had kids I wanted to have them interested and teach them as much as I can and it seemed like a good way, watching them watch Dora (the Explorer) and counting in Spanish, I figured we could do a little better than that.” While carving poles has long been a cultural practice within the nation, Edenshaw doesn’t view it solely as a traditional art. “It is contemporary as much as it is traditional because it is around and the stories that I’m telling through this pole in particular are sort of a mix between new and old stories. The art form does go back quite a ways into our history, but it still has contemporary meaning to us.” For the legacy pole, Edenshaw sourced a more than 500-year old red cedar he found on Graham Island. It’s currently housed at the Haida Heritage Centre at Kaay Llnagaay in Skidegate. “One of the really nice things about carving at the museum is that there’s some old poles inside that we can go and study as we’re carving,” he says. In addition, the site is accessible to community members who often stop in to see how things are coming along. Helping him with the project is his older brother Gwaai, a talented carver in his own right, and his nephew, Tyler York, 23. “He’s really gifted as an artist at figuring things out and you See Legacy page 25