Haida Carver

Directed by Richard Gilbert · Starring Robert Davidson · 1964

On Canada's Pacific coast, young Haida artist Robert Davidson gathers argillite on an island and carves miniature totems as his grandfather taught him.

A rare 1960s glimpse of a young Robert Davidson carrying on his grandfather's Haida carving tradition.

On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film follows the artist to the island where he finds the stone, and then sho

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