This carving is called "Raven and the First Men" by Haida artist Bill Reid (1920-1998), one of Canada's most respected artists. It depicts the Haida creation myth of the Raven coaxing the first Haida out of a clamshell. The carving is located at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The carving was commissioned in the late 1970s by one of the museum's benefactors. Reid carved it from a single block of yellow cedar (actually, over 150 cedar planks glued together). It was completed in 1980. The entire carving, of which only the top part is pictured, stands approximately 7 feet tall and weighs 4 1/2 tons.