Reg Davidson

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Reg Davidson (b. 1954) is a Canadian First Nations carver and a member of the Haida nation.

He was born in 1954 at the Haida village of Masset on the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia. He began carving argillite in 1972 and became apprenticed to his older brother, the carver Robert Davidson, during the carving of a housefront and houseposts in honor of their mother Florence Davidson's father Charles Edenshaw in 1977 and 1978.

Davidson works in argillite and wood and also produces silkscreens.

[edit] Sources

• 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 0-295-97259-9.