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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 4436072, member: 301&quot;]Sir.......yer preaching to the choir .....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1958, Haida carver <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/article/william-ronald-reid/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/article/william-ronald-reid/" rel="nofollow">Bill Reid</a> (1920–98) and Nimpkish carver Douglas Cranmer began recreating traditional Haida houses and totem poles for the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology. Reid has since been acknowledged as the leader of the Northwest Coast artistic revival.....</p><p><br /></p><p>The Potlatch ban ended in 1951, and the 2 decades before that are sometimes known as the dead time where ( with minor exceptions...) there was no carving of any kind going on on the coast . They had lost their traditional ways , and their culture was in Museum basements...</p><p><br /></p><p>The thicker club is a well known design , while the thinner one...has a totem pole configuration in a more folk art vibe.....as seen by the fist .....which is not a NWC design.</p><p>It may be that the clubs are from different ages....as how and when they were collected is lost in the fullness of time ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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