Image shows the front south corner of the Potlatch Gallery. Image shows the back south corner of the Potlatch Gallery. Image shows the south wall of the Potlatch Gallery. View from the south-east corner of the Potlatch gallery looking north towards the front of the gallery and centre wall.

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Sun Legend

Black line drawing shows the U'Mista Cultural Society logo as the sun in human form

“It wasn’t a great big fireball in the sky to the [Kwakwaka’wakw], he’s a little guy who gets up every morning, puts his abalone earrings on and walks across the sky. His earrings are the things that get the light.”

Chief Doug Cranmer, ‘Namgis

Designed by master carver Doug Cranmer, U’mista’s logo shows the sun in human form