Florence Davidson
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Florence Davidson (1895-?) was a Canadian artist who created traditional Haida basketry and button-blankets and was also a respected elder in her First Nations community, the Haida village of Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia.
She was born in Masset in 1895, the daughter of the Haida artist Charles Edenshaw, and assisted her mother in sewing button blankets when she was a child. She was renowned for her blankets and for sewing baskets of spruceroot and cedar bark.
Florence's grandsons include the artists Reg Davidson and Robert Davidson, who are brothers.
[edit] Sources
- Macnair, Peter L., Alan L. Hoover, and Kevin Neary (1984) The Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Northwest Coast Indian Art. Vancouver, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre.
