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Title |
Mouse Woman Banner |
Object Name |
Mouse Woman Banner |
Catalog Number |
2008.5.1.6 |
Creator |
Bill Reid |
Date |
1991 |
Scope & Content |
Item is a banner depicting the Mouse Woman. The banner is done in red and black ink. The Mouse Woman is a figure in the Haida myth "The Bear Mother". This banner is an edition of a banner that was designed to accompany the sculpture "The Spirit of Haida Gwaii". The following quote describes this figure in "The Spirit of Haida Gwaii". Bill Reid's description of the Mouse Woman: Tucked away in the stern of the boat, still ruled by the same obsession to stay concealed in the night shadows and lightless caves and other pockets of darkness in which she spends her immortality, the Mouse Woman lost her place among the other characters of her own myth, an important part of the Bear Mother story, and barely squeezed in at the opposite end of the boat, under the tail of the Raven. No human, beast or monster has yet seen her in the flesh, so she may or may not look like this. |
Level of description |
Item |
Collection |
Shaw Collection |
Parent Catalog Number |
2008.5.1 |
Credit line |
Courtesy of Mel and Joan Shaw |
Ownership |
Bill Reid Foundation |
People |
Reid, Bill |
Subjects |
Banners Mice |
Search Terms |
The Spirit of Haida Gwaii Bear Mother Mouse Woman |