Preface by :
Claude Lévi-StraussImprint:
Douglas & McIntyreISBN:
9781550544817Product Form:
PaperbackForm detail:
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General TradeDimensions:
8in x 6 x 0.5 in | 0.35 lbPage Count:
224 pagesAn elegant reissue of a timeless collection of Haida myths, with a new preface by Claude Levi-Strauss.
Ten masterful, complex drawings by Bill Reid are accompanied by ten episodes from Haida mythology told by Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst. The result brings Haida art and mythology alive as never before in an English-speaking world. The collection includes, says Reid, "a good selection of bestiality, adultery, violence, thievery and assault, for those who like that sort of thing."
Robert Bringhurst, one of Canada’s leading poets and book designers, worked and studied with Bill Reid throughout the 1980s. The fruits of this association include a much-loved book of stories, The Raven Steals the Light, as well as Bringhurst and Ulli Steltzer’s book The Black Canoe, a study of Reid’s masterly sculpture. He lives on Quadra Island, British Columbia.