UP FOR SALE: SHWEKHEYK (FROG) Limited Ed Print 85/100 Hand Signed Numbered by ADAM McIsaac
Thus item was hand picked from a collector's estate sale and there is no COA nor do I know if one ever existed
In Chinook mythology Frog was given fiber by his relatives Snake and omnipotent Coyote. With this fiber, Frog was given the task of creating the cordage for the weaving of the first fishing net.
With this net, made from fibers of the nettle, Frog had made it possible for the new human beings to catch their first salmon.
Coyote tested this net, with the guidance and wisdom of his three sisters, establishing the complex set of taboos associated with the catching of the first salmon of the season.
The new people would never eat or harm Frog, for his cleverness to human beings protected him. That is why you should always step around Frog and never over him.
–Adam McIsaac
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Pacific Northwest artist Adam McIsaac creates carved wooden sculptures, as well as paintings and prints. He is a non-Native artist, and he studied under the non-Native artist Duane Pasco, who has made the study of Indigenous artistic traditions of the Northwest Coast his life’s work. McIsaac uses carving tools and materials from traditional Native American Northwest Coast carving. He continues to learn about these traditions by working with local Indigenous communities, with a particular focus on the artistic traditions of the Columbia River tribes. McIsaac lives and works in La Center, on the Columbia River in Southwestern Washington.
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