Dozens of works by well-known Northwest Coast artists like Ellen Neel, Charlie James, Mungo Martin, Robert Davidson, Beau Dick on exhibit.
Phil Nuytten was an internationally renowned designer of deepsea diving equipment. But he had an artistic side that wasn’t as well known.
Some people might recognize it because the three-metre-tall totem used to be at SeaTac airport. Nuytten bought it and installed it at his home in North Vancouver. Nuytten loved First Nations art as a child, and asked the curator of the Vancouver Museum who could teach him to carve. They recommended Neel, and the 11-year-old Nuytten went to her modest home a stone’s throw from Rogers Sugar to ask her for lessons.
His most famous invention was the Newtsuit, which allowed divers to go to deep depths and became the standard for contained diving suits. He was a consultant with both NASA and James Cameron, the film director who made Titanic. One of them is Numan by Don Smith, a yellow and red cedar mask of an old man’s head with wonderfully bushy eyebrows and beard. It’s a dance mask, and many parts move, which makes it come alive.
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