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To: Gauguin who wrote (40244)	10/21/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (3) of 71178

I'll have to look for it... love Haida stuff... They have some super totem poles, house timbers, etc... at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. They're in the Great Hall of the building... the hall was built to resemble a row of houses facing onto a black granite floor that is so highly polished that it looks like water. There are probably about a dozen poles in the hall now... a lot of Haida but Tlingit, Tshimshan, Kwakiutl, etc.. The hall has a silkscreen backdrop of the BC rainforest behind it. The opposite wall is all glass... the height of the poles... and looks out onto the Ottawa River and also onto the Canadian parliament buildings up on the cliffs across from the museum... The first time that I ever looked down on the hall from the mezzanine above, I was pretty blown away... awesome interior space. BTW, it was designed by the aboriginal architect, Douglas Cardinal. Oh..and the full-size plaster model for Bill Reid's "Spirit of Haida G'wai" (The Spirit Canoe) bronze sculpture in the Canadian embassy in Washington is "floating" across the granite floor... Hmmmm... I better stop... can go on like this for hours...(-: Thanks for the note about Archaeology... I'll look for it...

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