Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time: Kingcome Inlet Pictographs, 1893-1998
- Non-Fiction
- 248 pages, 8×10 inches
- Price: $29 CAD · $29 USD
- ISBN: 9780921586845
- Date published: 2001-09-01
- Availability: in print & available
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About Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time
In 1998, Dzawadaenuxw artist Marianne Nicholson scaled a vertical rock face in Kingcome Inlet to paint a massive pictograph to mark the continued vitality of her ancestral village of Gwayi. Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time is the story of that painting, of earlier politically defiant rock art, and of "coppers," ceremonial shields that are a central motif in these images.
Judith Williams tracks the history of a culturally and geographically rich locale at a flashpoint in Nativewhite relations. She investigates the rock art around Kingcome Inlet, explores the disintegrating Halliday homestead, and plumbs the archives to measure colonialisms legacy. Documenting Nicholsons painting of the new pictograph, Williams describes the symbiosis of old and new that has seen Gwayi and the Kwakwakawakw prevail despite all attempts to eradicate their culture.