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Born in 1941, Hazel Wilson grew up at Old Massett on Haida Gwaii. Known as Jut-ke-Nay in the Haida language, she belonged to the Duugwaa St’Langng 7laanaas clan on the Raven side (descendants of the people of Tiiyaan on the west coast of Haida Gwaii). Her parents were Augustus Caesar Wilson and Grace May Bell Wilson (nee Dewitt). When she was 14, she was selected to become a maker of appliqued button blankets. By the mid-1980s, she had firmly established her reputation as an artist working in traditional forms with a contemporary sensibility.

Born: 1941-01-05
Died: 2016-05