Visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art can now expect to spot a work by B.C.’s own Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas in Gallery 399. The museum announced today that the Haida artist’s piece Yelthadaas is on display in the museum’s permanent collection.

Yelthadaas is a part of Yahgulanaas’s series titled “Coppers from the Hood,” named in honour of the shield-like coppers exchanged by Haida chiefs during traditional potlatches. In a press release from the artist, the curator of the museum said he believes Yahgulanaas is the only living Canadian indigenous artist with work currently on display.

Yahgulanaas is an award-winning, mixed-media artist whose pieces have also been displayed in the UBC Museum of Anthropology and the British Museum. He has worked in sculpture, painting, and a Japanese-influenced illustrative style called “Haida Manga”. Yahgulanaas is currently working on a story called “Carpenter’s Fin” in Haida Manga style that will be displayed as a mural in another, currently unannounced American museum, set to be unveiled in 2018.