Saturday Spotlight: Learning from the Masters - Recarving the Great Box

In September 2014 two Haida carvers, Gwaii and Jaalen Edenshaw came to the Pitt Rivers to reclaim the mastery of the C19th artist of the 'Great Box', a Haida masterpiece. While Gwaai and Jaalen are very experienced carvers, having made boxes, totem poles and other Haida cultural items before, they felt that this artist knew the rules of Haida art so well he was playing with them. They brought a new blank box, drawn with the designs of the historic box and spent four weeks working with the real thing to make their own copy. This talk will discuss the Museum's work with Haida people on this and other projects and the process of remaking the Great Box.
Admission
Free entry. Suitable for adults and older children.

Website
http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/spotlights.html

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000393?id=EVENT504462