Elswa Rock

Elswa Rock (52˚19'00" 131˚15'00" Skincuttle Inlet, SE side of Moresby I, QCI). Haida artist, guide and interpreter Johnny Kit Elswa, from Tanu, was active in the late 19th century. James Swan hired him on his 1883 artifact-collecting expedition to the Charlottes on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution. Elswa was noted as a carver and jeweller, and was also one of the first Haida artists to work in pen and watercolour on paper. A number of his pieces are in Yale Univ’s Western Americana...

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