Northwest Coast Native Art

$2200.00

Item GC1003

23 1/2 x 10 x 8 1/2

3 lbs. 2 oz.

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Puk-ubs

Hand carved cedar, hand painted with raffia hair

Greg Colfax

Greg Colfax's style of sculpture and two-dimensional design extends the concept of traditional Neah Bay and Ozette styles of Makah art, while maintaining a very strong connection to the most ancient visual and representational aspects of these traditions. An articulate speaker and writer as well as artist, Colfax has taught in the Native American studies programs of the Evergreen State College at Olympia, Washington.

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The legend of the "Puk-ubs" is about the whaling traditions of the Makah people. The whalers were physically and mentally well prepared for their task, but sometimes they would be lost at sea. This legendary figure is about a whaling expedition where one of the whalers is lost overboard. The priority of the other members of the crew is to continue the hunt. After an extended period in the water, the lost whaler's body would sometimes wash up onto a beach, then transform into another state of life. With his hair still tied back in the whaler's tradition, lacking eyes, his skin white and wrinkled, he then becomes known as Puk-ubs.