Just an amazing Bill Reid piece out of yellow cedar. Koerner saw a miniature and commissioned this large piece. Arthur Erikson, the architect of the museum, designed this special rotunda that houses it. What was really interesting from the tour was that the base was one of these old gun things that they built during WW II and placed around UBC in case Japan invaded the west coast. These were a real feature of UBC when we were there. We used to climb around on them. It was too expensive to get rid of these so what a great idea to use this one as a base...guess the rest are still around somewhere. And the sand that the sculpture sits on is from Haida Gwaii that the children from there collected and brought down for the opening.
A few more scenes from the museum:
