Williams is the first Haida tattoo artist to emerge in 120 years. ... Davidson is renowned today not just for totem poles and masks, but also for painting, sculpture and printmaking.

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The emojis also feature Haida words; Siijuu, meaning slick or cool, and K'w, which is an expression of displeasure. In 2013, Jaalen Edenshaw helped carve the first totem pole erected in Gwaii ...

While the Haida could not hold a potlatch or raise a totem pole – too public – the small poles could be discreetly made. At the same time, these poles were being snatched up by visitors.

For Haida artist Robert Davidson, the idea of carving a totem pole was his grand, loving gesture to his grandparents' generation to allow them to celebrate in the old ways they knew one more time ...