Example sentences for: haida

How can you use “haida” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some smaller figures, in soft black argillite stone, were turned out by Haida craftsmen specifically for 19th-century European tourists who found themselves “caricatured” in the carvings.

  • Gracing the lawns are a magnificent group of totem poles and two cedarwood houses of the Haida Indians, built in the 1930s and faithful to a centuries-old technique and form.

  • A splendid group of Haida and Kwakiutl totem poles nearby illustrate the province’s other important cultural influence.

  • Farther east is Thunderbird Park, home of the city’s most important collection of Indian carvings — Tsimshian and Haida totem poles, Salish sculpture of their chieftains, and a reconstructed Kwakiutl longhouse.

  • Inside the museum, alongside the artifacts of other Pacific civilizations, the rich culture of the coastal tribes — Haida, Kwakiutl, Salish, Tlingit, and Tsimshian — is beautifully displayed and illuminated in a space where the roof-glass seems to open the halls to the heavens.


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