Haida art is renowned among Indigenous art styles. About 12" by 11", red cedar with cedar bark hair, copper eyes, a nose ring, and abalone earrings. Carved by Corey Bulpitt.
'This mask is a shaman mask or Sgaaga in Haida. He is wearing a hairpin in his top knot, has a copper nose ring and abalone earrings. He is surrounded by sacred red cedar bark. He has the tail of a killer whale painted on his face and a dorsal fin on his forehead. The killer whale is often a spirit helper of the shaman. His eyes are rolled back and tongue is out as he is depicted here in a healing trance.' Corey Bulpitt
Taakeit Aaya or "Gifted Carver" Haida of the Naikun Raven clan was born in Prince Rupert BC in 1978. He is a great-great grandson of the famed Charles Edenshaw and Louis Collison.