Skidegate House Models: From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond

by Robin K Wright and Robin K. Wright

Explores the Skidegate model village carved by Haida artists for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair

In 1892 seventeen Haida artists were commissioned to carve a model of HlGaagilda Llnagaay (the village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia) for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. The Skidegate model, featuring twenty-nine large houses and forty-two poles, is the only known model village in North America carved by nineteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295751045
• ISBN13: 9780295751047
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.3" x 10.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher