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Spirit Guardian of the Songs

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Spirit Guardian of the Songs

2009

Joe Seymour

Squaxin Island/Acoma

Since the 1960s, Northwest Coast Native artists have used the printmaking medium to explore ideas and designs beyond those possible in carving, painting and weaving. Graphic works have been a vehicle to both discover traditional design and to push against its constraints.

Silkscreen print
22 x 21 in. (55.9 x 53.3 cm)
Gift of Simon Ottenberg
2014.4.32
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
location
Not currently on view

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