How We Revere the Family

Ma-iił-pa-tu (How We Revere the Family), a 1999 sculpture by Tim Paul, expresses Nuu-chah-nulth philosophical concepts of origin, place and home. The Nuu-chah-nulth domain is metaphorically a house – all of the related people – and everything arises from this foundation of family. All the elements depicted here are contained in nism’a, our land.…The geese,…