The Bill Reid Centre

ímesh Mobile App

Indigenous oriented app featuring walking tours of SFU Burnaby. learn more →
Haida Tattoo

Learn about the history of Haida tattoo, and view a gallery of images and drawings capturing the designs used in tattoos. (Sketch: J. Kit-Elswa, 1883) learn more →
Northwest Coast Village Project

Explore the villages of the Northwest Coast. Find out more about the history, art and architecture of each location. learn more →
Digital Image Collection

Search the Bill Reid Centre's collection of digitized historical photographs at the Simon Fraser University Library. learn more →
Monumental Art and Architecture

Learn about canoes, totem poles and architecture of the Pacific Northwest. learn more →
Black Eagle

Black Eagle is fiberglass replica of famed dugout canoe Loo Taas (wave eater), which Bill Reid and his assistants carved from a 750-year-old cedar tree for Expo ’86. learn more →

Summary

Through the use of digital technologies and new media, the Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Studies seeks to (1) encourage community and academic conversations regarding the visual culture of Northwest Coast First Nations, and (2) promote public understanding and respect for the First Nations of the Northwest Coast past and present.

A major activity of the Centre is to document through photographs, drawings and various other media, the depth and richness of Northwest Coast culture in the hundreds of communities in which it was recorded in the past, and where it continues to thrive today.