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Toad-hair Vetoed'Brekekekex-coax-coax' (Aristophanes, 'The Frogs')

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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 19950922
Author:Alex Berlyne

Alex Berlyne
Jerusalem Post
09-22-1995
In the January issue of Smithsonian magazine, William Severini Kowinski described the art of Robert Davidson, who works on the Semiahmoo Reserve of the Central Coast Salish people, near Vancouver.

Davidson belongs to the third generation of Haida artists who have been reviving the traditional sculpture and paintings of the Northwest - totem poles, ceremonial masks, rattles and drum-skins. These are crowded with stylized Ravens, Bears, Eagles and Killer Whales, all of them imbued by the Haida with mythic powers. Somewhat confusingly, although his ...

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