Sunday, May 5, 2019

Guujaaw - Haida Drum making



Sunday May 5

Notes

Woody
03:25 Soft-mind

05:00 Drum - Guujaw. All it means, is "Flat head"

06:12 Drum stick - called a whip in Haida, because your whipping the drum

07:48 Words are so powerful, important to how they are pronounced to be clear what you are saying

09:20 Killerwhale woman

11:02 Once you finish making a drum, you have to sing it to life, then you have to dance it

11:39 Some say you have to give away the first thing you make, that is not a rule

11:50 You only to get to keep that which you give away.

12:30 When I (Woody) was a kid, we didn't have any drums in the village

13:29 Nose - that thing that sticks out front of your face,

13:54 Ear

14:10 His ears don't work!

14:50 Hair - kuts

15:07 Clam has same name as "trail, road, ladder"

15:58 Horse

16:08 Teeth

16:26 My spirit says so too

Todd
16:50 Introduces Sabian Raycliff

Sabian
17:08 Introduces himself and his drum style: Chehalis

18:15 Shows class a finished drum that they will also make

18:34 Drum making supplies, frame, hide and sinew

20:00 Start with the sinew by forming a circle...