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.
Editor's note: 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.