Northwest Coast Jewellery in Masterpiece Gallery
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- Summer 1996
- This summer, the museum is expanding its exhibit of jewellery in the Masterpiece Gallery to highlight the history of metalwork on the Northwest Coast. Included are early iron and simple twisted copper bracelets, as well as contemporary pieces by Mary Ann Barkhouse, Dale Campbell, Jim Hart, Russell Smith, Francis Williams, Lyle Wilson and Don Yeomans. The exhibit also includes a case devoted to the museum’s collection of gold and silver work by Robert Davidson, and another to the work of the late Kwakwaka’wakw artist Lloyd Wadhams.