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Thursday, April 29, 2004

Artist: Gordon Miller

"Heritage"
Original oil 24" x 36" by Gordon Miller © 1989

The great cedar plank houses and their awe-inspiring totem poles symbolize the extraordinary artistic and cultural achievements of the Northwest Coast Indians.

I used archival photographic records for this painting of a section of the Haida village of Skidegate in the Queen Charlotte Islands, circa 1860.

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