After four decades in Kitimat, an impressive piece of Gitxsan art work has returned home to Hazelton.
Originally, the large panel red cedar carving was commissioned by Ocelot Industries to be displayed in their administration building.
Carved by renowned Gitxsan artist Walter Harris, the panel depicts the front of a traditional longhouse, and incorporates aspects of Tsimshian cosmology.
In 2011, the building which housed it was taken over by LNG Canada, who moved into the administration building, where the carving would remain for years.
LNG Canada decommissioned the building in 2020, and offered to return the carving to Harris’s family in Kispiox.
They worked with Harris’s son, Rodney, to bring the carving home, and late last month it was installed in the new Upper Skeena Recreation Centre in Hazelton.
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