Reg Davidson (born 1954) is an

Aboriginal Canadian In Canada, Indigenous groups comprise the First Nations, Inuit and Métis. Although ''Indian'' is a term still commonly used in legal documents, the descriptors ''Indian'' and ''Eskimo'' have fallen into disuse in Canada, and most consider them ...

carver and a member of the

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. He was born in 1954 at the Haida village of

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on the

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. His parents are

Claude Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher ...

and Vivian Davidson and, through Claude, he is the grandson of the Haida artist and memoirist

Florence Davidson Florence Edenshaw Davidson (1896–1993) was a Canadian First Nations artist from the Haida. She created basketry and button-blankets and was a respected elder in her village of Masset, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Early life Florence Edensha ...

. He is a member of the Eagle moiety, Ts'ał'lanas lineage. He began carving

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in 1972 and became apprenticed to his older brother, the carver Robert Davidson, during the carving of a housefront and houseposts in honour of their grandmother

's father

Charles Edenshaw Charles Edenshaw (–1920) was a Haida artist"Master Artists: Charles Edensha ...

in 1977 and 1978. Davidson works in

and wood and also produces

silkscreen Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh ...

Sources

* Blackman, Margaret B. (1982; rev. ed., 1992) ''During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, a Haida Woman.'' Seattle: University of Washington Press. * Macnair, Peter L., Alan L. Hoover, and Kevin Neary (1984) ''The Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Northwest Coast Indian Art.'' Vancouver, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre. * Stewart, Hilary (1993). ''Looking at Totem Poles.'' Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN. *.

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Reg Davidson, Haida Artist
1954 births Living people 20th-century First Nations sculptors Canadian male sculptors 20th-century Canadian male artists 21st-century First Nations people Haida woodcarvers Northwest Coast art {{NorthAm-native-bio-stub