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Bumble Bee

Nuu-chah-nulth Artist

Harry Williams

Bear Fur 9  by 8  inches

5  in removable stingers

$480.00

Wild Women of Woods  “TsonoKwa”

Harry Williams Carver,Huu-ay-aht  Nation,

Red Cedar,Cedar Bark,Paint

12 inches wide by 14 inches long

Full length with cedar bark 37 inches

$2100.00

Harry Williams,Tsuna’kwa

The Wild Women of the Woods

Red Cedar,Cedar Bark,Paint

8 inches by 8 inches Mask

17 inches full length Cedar  SOLD

Bukwas by Harry Williams
Red Cedar, Cedar Bark, Paint
8 inches by 5 inches Wood Mask
14 inches long with cedar bark
$680.00

Bukwas, or wild man of the woods, is a significant supernatural spirit being of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation and casts a haunting figure in their great annual winter dance.  Bukwas is linked with the underworld of the dead and with ghosts — especially the spirits of the drowned who hover near him.  This mysterious and illusive wild man lurks near the edge of the dark forest where he lives, offering food to lost humans, luring them to become spirits in his shadowy underworld.  This figure represents a Kwakwaka’wakw dancer wearing a carefully carved cedar mask, portraying Bukwas creeping to a sand bank on a sunny morning to dig for cockles, which is his favourite food.  He is very shy and looks about to see if he is being watched, shading his face from the sun with his hands.  Suddenly he leaps forward, settles on one knee searching for cockles, and devours them quickly, occasionally uttering a high pitched whoop or shriek from a concealed whistle.

Wolf  Bear  Harry Williams

Huu-Ay-Aht  Tribe

Yellow cedar,cedar bark

abalone, paint

23 inches by 15 inches

$800,00

Harry Williams  Raven

Huu-Ay-Aht-Aht  Tribe

Raven on stand

13 inches by 10 inches

$900.oo

Wolf Drum

Red Cedar,Deer Hide,Paint

10 inches by 2.5 inches

$500.00

Man in the Moon carving by Harry Williams

Yellow Cedar, Red Cedar Bark.

$1200