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TEACHER NOTE 2: RED
SNAPPER
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Red
Snapper by Richard Hunt (print
done in red)
from Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast by Hilary
Stewart, page 78.
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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 fishhe painted them
all red to please them. They have been red ever since. |
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