According to Simon Fraser University’s Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies, the Haida practised tattooing for generations before European contact. “The tattoo marks themselves ...

“Since contact, the art’s been dismissed as curio ... tattooed to my shoulder,” says Gregory Williams, a Haida tattoo artist. “I don’t play basketball.” Nor did Trudeau ask permission ...

In a March 2012 post on X (formerly Twitter), Trudeau explained the meaning behind both parts of his body art. "My tattoo is planet Earth inside a Haida raven. The globe I got when I was 23 ...

But he realised with time someone of the stature of Trudeau might help to elevate Haida art and his anger was stifling his creativity. The tattoo was planet Earth inside a Haida raven - the raven ...

The tattoo, which Trudeau got just before he became Liberal leader in 2013, adapts a design by Robert Davidson, one of Canada’s most celebrated Haida artists You can save this article by ...

Here’s the lowdown on the tattoo belonging to former ... also has the capacity to teach humans the art of “living a good life”. Traditional Haida tales illustrate the Raven as a resourceful ...

Last December, I interviewed Haida artist Robert Davidson, whose artwork Raven Bringing Light to the World was adapted into a tattoo that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wears on his left arm.

Even under the oppressive circumstances his generation faced, Mr. Edenshaw took classical Haida art to new heights ... instead of a tattoo on their skin. "It became a way that one could display ...

Most of these representations of supernatural beings have been in abstract art," said Terri Lynn Williams Davidson, a Haida artist and lawyer. While the story of Foam Woman is a commonly shared ...