This new edition of a collaboration between one of the finest living artists in North America and one of Canada's finest poets includes a new introduction by the distinguished anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss.

This volume is an elegant reissue of a timeless collection of Haida stories. Ten masterful, complex drawings by Bill Reid are accompanied by ten episodes from Haida oral tradition told by Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst. The result brings Haida art and storytelling alive as never seen before in an English-speaking world. The collection includes, says Reid, "a good selection of bestiality, adultery, violence, thievery and assault, for those who like that sort of thing."

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Bill Reid (1920-1998) was an acclaimed master goldsmith, carver, sculptor, writer, broadcaster, mentor and community activist. Reid was born in Victoria, BC to a Haida mother and an American father with Scottish-German roots, and only began exploring his Haida roots at the age of 23.

Robert Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He is the author of The Elements of Typographic Style – a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrangement of type. He has also translated works of epic poetry from Haida mythology into English.

• Published 1996 (Originally 1984)
  
• Paperback, 128 pages