by Skip Saunders
(Nuxalk)

Red Cedar, paint, bark. (12”Lx9”Hx8”W)

$1985

The Happy Boy is also called The Dance of the Raindrops. If you listen closely to the beat of the drum it is said to represent the sound of rain dropping through a hole in the roof of a smokehouse. You can see a short film about this dance at https://www.ourworldlanguage.ca/blog/2008/3/31/happy-boy