Model Paddle

Culture Haida
Location Case 015
Object Number Nb1.738

Compare this paddle with the model paddle Nb1.633. We know the name of the artist who carved and painted this paddle: Zacherias Nicolas. He was a Haida artist who likely made this paddle around 1900. Nicolas was also one of seventeen Haida artists who created sets of model Haida houses for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.