Earrings

About this object

Narrative

Dr. Sydney Friedman and his wife Dr. Constance Friedman were acquainted for many years with Haida artist, Bill Reid, whom they commissioned to make gold and silver jewellery, between the early 1950s and 1974.

Physical description

Pair of hand-carved sterling silver clip-on earrings with loon design. Silver overlay technique with frontal human face in the eyes and tails and salmon-trout head in wings, with a long feathered neck. Inscription on one earring reads "HAIDA ART" and on the other "Reid."