The Raven and the First Men

'The Raven and the First Men' (1980–1991) is a monumental yellow-cedar sculpture by the Haida artist Bill Reid (1920–1998), permanently installed at the centre of the Bill Reid Rotunda at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Carved from a laminated log nearly two metres across, it depicts the Haida creation myth in which Raven, the trickster-creator, coaxes the first humans out of a giant clamshell on the beach of Naikun. Reid's work reshaped both contemporary Indigenous art in Canada and the Canadian national imagination — the sculpture appeared on the Canadian twenty-dollar bill from 2004 until 2012.

Exhibition Venue

Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology

Florence, Italy