The Zen of Haida Formline All summer I was on call while a friend of mine carved a Shovelnose canoe. I had documented the first Shovelnose he carved the year before and we decided the […] read more
1 Native Paint Revealed: Prehistoric Red Paint on the Northwest Coast
Recently I spent the afternoon at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC with lots of rocks. I’d been invited up by Dr. Roy Carlson, an archeologist who has been working digs in the Fraser River […] read more
2 Native Paint Revealed, Red ochre
Fig 5 is a small sampler of the red ochres I have. (I have more than a hundred individual samples, all from different parts of the country, in varying states from stone to powder.) The […] read more
3 Native Paint Revealed: The everlasting power of red ochre
John Greenway writes: ‘Why did this material in almost every religion since Neanderthal man invented that institution, become the most spiritually rich and magical of all substances… There is no end to the myriad uses […] read more
4 Native Paint Revealed, Vegetable or mineral
Vegetable or Mineral I have had the opportunity to study a wide variety of prehistoric painted artifacts from the NW Coast and have only found one object that had a color on it that wasn’t […] read more
