TEACHER NOTE 2: RED SNAPPER

Red Snapper by Richard Hunt (print done in red)
from Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast by Hilary Stewart, page 78.
The Red Snapper received its color, according to Tlingit legend, when a man went looking for his wife, whom the killer whale had kidnapped. He lifted up the edge of the sea as though it were a blanket, and walked under. As he journeyed on, he came across some pale-looking fish—he painted them all red to please them. They have been red ever since.

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