Northwest Coast Native Art

$55.00

Item D104F

21 1/2 x 11 1/2

2 lbs. 0 oz.

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Raven Sun & Sleeping Raven
by Yukie Adams

5" x 7" prints, double ivory mat and black wooden frame

Yukie Adams

In 1984 artist Yukie Adams married Henry Adams. Henry was an Alaskan Tlingit tribal citizen. When Yukie married him she became a part of his Tlingit culture. Yukie naturally became interested in the native art of the Northwest Coast. Yukie studied and with her newly acquired knowledge, she began creating contemporary Northwest Coast Native designs. Yukie put her designs on drums, paintings, serigraphs, and prints. After her husband passed away, she began to take her work to a new level. Yukie started to create woodcarvings and mixed media. This combination of modernism and traditionalism is unique to her works of art.

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At the beginning of time, the world was dark. White Raven heard of a Great Chief who kept the sun, moon and stars in a box inside his house. The White Raven wondered how he could get into the Chiefs House. Cleverly, Raven transformed himself into a hemlock needle and fell into the Chief's daughter's drinking water. Soon after swallowing the Hemlock needle, the chief's daughter gave birth. The chief was very fond of his grandson, Raven disguised as a human child. Baby Raven cried, and begged to play with the box, finally Grandpa gave in. Suddenly White Raven changed into his bird form and flew out the smoke hole with the box. The soot, ashes, and smoke turned White Raven black. That is how White Raven stole the sun, moon, and stars, and became Black.