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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: CLAUDE DAVIDSON (1924-1991) HAIDA, MASSET, Model Totem Pole, 1980
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: CLAUDE DAVIDSON (1924-1991) HAIDA, MASSET, Model Totem Pole, 1980
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: CLAUDE DAVIDSON (1924-1991) HAIDA, MASSET, Model Totem Pole, 1980
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    CLAUDE DAVIDSON (1924-1991) HAIDA, MASSET

    Model Totem Pole, 1980
    argillite, 14.25 x 3.5 x 3.5 in (36.2 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm)
    signed and inscribed, "CLAUDE DAVIDSON / HAIDA BC".

    LOT 77
    ESTIMATE: $4,000 — $6,000
    PRICE REALIZED: $4,080.00

    Further images

    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, GREENLAND, Tupilak, early 1970s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, GREENLAND, Tupilak, early 1970s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, GREENLAND, Tupilak, early 1970s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, GREENLAND, Tupilak, early 1970s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, GREENLAND, Tupilak, early 1970s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, GREENLAND, Tupilak, early 1970s
    • Model Totem Pole
    Claude Davidson, the grandson of the renowned Haida artist Charles Edenshaw and the son of Robert Davidson Sr., was Chief of the village of Dadens on Langara Island, Haida Gwaii....
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    Claude Davidson, the grandson of the renowned Haida artist Charles Edenshaw and the son of Robert Davidson Sr., was Chief of the village of Dadens on Langara Island, Haida Gwaii. He began as a fisherman and took up argillite carving in the mid 1950s, encouraging his sons Robert and Reg to do the same. He was instrumental in organizing and supervising the raising of Robert’s pole in 1969, the first to be erected in the village of Masset in living memory. This fine pole depicts an Eagle seated upon a Bear holding the skil hat of a Raven, who has a Frog in its beak and sits atop a Beaver holding a stick in its paws.

    References: See the chapter on Claude Davidson (which includes an interview with the artist) in Leslie Drew and Douglas Wilson, Argillite: Art of the Haida (Vancouver: Hancock House, 1980), pp. 111-116. For other poles by Claude Davidson see Carol Sheehan, Pipes that won’t Smoke: Coal that won’t Burn: Haida Sculpture in Argillite (Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1981), p. 192


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    A Vancouver Collection.
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