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Frog and Snipe (1991)

Wood Engraving w/color
Dale DeArmond
Artist's Edition: 25
Edition of Artist Proofs: 2

Paper type: Archival quality
Image size: 5" x 6"

AKA: Snipe and Toad

Hand pulled by the artist from the original endgrain maple block on an Ettan etching press at Sitka, Alaska, May, 1991.

Editor's note: an image representing the color print is currently unavailable.

Brown Bear told Frog to drink up all the water in the lake so Brown Bear could catch the man/otter who killed his daughter. But the man/otter told Snipe to poke her sharp beak into Frog's belly and all the water ran back into the lake. An Athabascan folk-tale.

Original price: $80.00