A Tale of Two Shamans

$18.95 at Seattle Art Museum.

"The work that you are about to read is old, much older than any of us still living. It is probably older than anything one could even call Canadian. It precedes us all." - A Tale of Two Shamans This story is a blend of accounts recorded at the turn of the nineteenth century in three of the once numerous dialects of the Haida language. The author has combined elements from these accounts into a newly constructed whole and cautions the reader that these images are interpretations informed by his own cultural…