The Great Box - Learning From Our Ancestors

A masterpiece of Haida First Nations art from Canada, “the Great Box” was collected by General Pitt Rivers by 1874 and was part of the Museum’s founding collection. As part of the Museum’s ongoing relationship with the Haida Nation, two experienced Haida artists, brothers Jaalen Edenshaw and Gwaai Edenshaw, spent a month at the Pitt Rivers in September 2014 making an exact replica of the box in order to learn from the artist who made it. Find out more about the Great Box project - https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/haidabox

Videographer - Geoff Horner