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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: WALTER HARRIS, O.C., (1931-2009) GITXSAN (GITKSAN), Children Pulling the Jaw Off the Transformed Weget , 1981
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: WALTER HARRIS, O.C., (1931-2009) GITXSAN (GITKSAN), Children Pulling the Jaw Off the Transformed Weget , 1981
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: WALTER HARRIS, O.C., (1931-2009) GITXSAN (GITKSAN), Children Pulling the Jaw Off the Transformed Weget , 1981

WALTER HARRIS, O.C., (1931-2009) GITXSAN (GITKSAN)

Children Pulling the Jaw Off the Transformed Weget , 1981
silkscreen, 17.25 x 11.5 in (43.8 x 29.2 cm), framed
50/100
LOT 28
ESTIMATE: $150 — $250
PRICE REALIZED: $366.00
25 September 2025

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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) WALTER HARRIS, O.C., (1931-2009) GITXSAN (GITKSAN), Children Pulling the Jaw Off the Transformed Weget , 1981
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) WALTER HARRIS, O.C., (1931-2009) GITXSAN (GITKSAN), Children Pulling the Jaw Off the Transformed Weget , 1981
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An accomplished carver and Hereditary Chief of the Village of Kispiox in British Columbia, Walter Harris was only an occasional printmaker. He first studied art at the Ksan School of...
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An accomplished carver and Hereditary Chief of the Village of Kispiox in British Columbia, Walter Harris was only an occasional printmaker. He first studied art at the Ksan School of Northwest Coast Art in 1969, where his teachers, Doug Cranmer, Robert Davidson, Bill Holm, and Duane Pasco, undoubtedly helped fuel Harris’s eye for design and composition. He eventually became an instructor himself at the school, spending several years teaching new generations of students. In Children Pulling the Jaw Off the Transformed Weget, we are treated to a layered scene of Weget, the Gitxsan Trickster. As water swirls around him, many small hands on the fishing line yank at Weget, pulling his jaw right off as it sticks to the taught hook. His transformation may be failing him, as an arm and leg present themselves from the side of the fish!
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Provenance

Private Collection, Ottawa;
Estate of the above.
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