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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 9957283, member: 301&quot;]De Nada !</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the siggy that I don&#039;t recognize ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The styles... are mostly regional , but early on many artists were trained in styles not their own , or carved in several different styles thru contact with other carvers not of their tribal affiliation. ( see the K&#039;san school of carving..)</p><p>Traditionally , artists were taken under the wing of family members , like an uncle or grandfather and instructed in their own clan crests and the designs of their culture , but as they grew to understand and become proficient in their own designs&nbsp; , better artists would attempt to master and learn a host of different form line designs.</p><p><br /></p><p>I once possessed two pendants by the Haida master artist Don Yeomans. Both were utterly true to Coast Salish formline designs , that without his signature , I would have known what they were..... but not who made them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can recognize Salish design from Washington State , and Tlingit design from Alaska.... but am not fluent in all the carvers from those areas.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there are the outliers .... for instance the late Tsimshian Artist Danny Dennis.</p><p>Danny was born in 1951, and his crest was Frog. He was a self-taught artist. While his grandfather, Bert Dennis, was of Haida origin from Alaska, his grandmother, Elsie Dennis, was Gitksan, so Danny has spent a great deal of his life in Hazelton, BC.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://sa-cinn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/orca.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>His style is a Gitksan, Haida, Tsimpshian mix, that is all his own , and I can pretty much recognize it on sight.</p><p><br /></p><p>There , like the above ,&nbsp; are many exceptions , many self taught 1st nations artists , &amp; I&#039;m still learning.</p><p>So, from time to time......... I can be so wrong , it&#039;s embarrassing !!!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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