Shirley Adams Poulson

Country/Region: Northwest Coast (view other artists)

Tribe: Haida

Shirley Poulsen (b. 1956) learned to make button blankets with her grandmother Agnes (Edenshaw) Yeltatzie, beginning when she was eight years old. Shirley has been influenced and inspired by her cousin, famed Haida artist, Robert Davidson. Her designs are all based in tradition and she uses only mother of pearl or abalone buttons.

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