Wood Engraving
Dale DeArmond
Artist's Edition: 50
Edition of Artist Proofs: 5
Paper type: Archival quality
Print size: 7 ½" x 9"
Image size: 5" x 6"
AKA: Friends of the Bears
AKA: He Becomes a Fish to Steal Bear's Spear
Hand pulled by the artist from the original endgrain maple block on an Ettan etching press at Juneau, Alaska, April, 1990.
Illustration for an Athabascan folktale about a man who went down the Yukon River in a canoe and had adventures with different animals along the way. When he saw Bear waiting on the bank the man turned himself into a salmon. Bear tried to spear him but the man grabbed the spear point and swam away with it.
A man who was a friend of the bears was swallowed by a very large fish. One of the bears set out to kill the fish in order to release the man.
Original price: $35.00