![]() ![]() By applying these jewellery techniques to Haida art, he pushed the old forms in new directions. It was the work of these and other Haida artists that inspired Reid to build on their legacy.Īlready working in Toronto as a CBC radio announcer, Reid studied European goldsmithing in Toronto before returning to British Columbia in the early 1950s. While in his twenties, Reid spent time with his maternal grandfather, Charles Gladstone, a carver and silversmith, who was the nephew and heir of the 19th-century Haida artist, Charles Edenshaw. His father was an American of Scottish-German origin and his mother a Haida, born in Skidegate, and descendent of a lineage from T’anuu, Haida Gwaii. ![]() Bill Reid was born in 1920 in Victoria, BC. ![]()
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