Wood Engraving
Dale DeArmond
Artist's Edition: 25
Edition of Artist Proofs: 2
Book Edition: 5
Paper type: Rives BFK
Print size: 7 ½" x 8 ½"
Image size: 5" x 6"
AKA: The Seal Hunter
AKA: Crow Brings his Own Guts
AKA: Boy Escapes from the Fire Woman
Hand pulled by the artist from the original endgrain maple block on an Ettan etching press at Sitka, Alaska, March, 1992.
Book edition print is featured in Tales that Raven Told: Athabascan Folktales. The image is also illustrated in the book Tales From the Dena: Indian Stories from the Tanana, Koyukuk & Yukon Rivers.
An Athabascan folk tale. An old woman shaman told a young hunter not to kill any female seals that day but the hunter killed female seals anyway and a terrible storm came up and a terrible flaming thing came out of the storm and came after him. He barely managed to reach shore and find shelter in a house.