Photo Gallery

Argillite totem pole from the last century. From top to bottom, there is a bear, a raven with a frog on its wing, the figure of a chief and a hawk with a killer whale in its talons. (36 cm, MOA)
MOA = Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Argillite pipe. Two sailors and two dogs are connected by an anchor chain. The hole for tobacco is located left of the middle. The wooden mouthpiece is inserted on the outside right. Such pipes were a typical mid-19th-cehtury trade item. (42 cm; MOA)
MOA = Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Haida argillite platter made in the 1880s, showing two killer whales. The rim is inlaid with opercula, sea snail plugs. (42 ern, MOA)
MOA = Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Like many other Haida artists, Garner Moody, born in 1958, specializes in argillite carving. Among his teachers are his uncle, Rufus Moody, and Alfred Collinson. Garner Moody lives in Skidegate.