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Ruby Throat Hummingbirds
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Ruby Throat Hummingbirds

Date1992
Maker Robert Sebastian First Nations, Gitxsan, born 1952
Label Text“Hummingbird sat beside Raven at the Feast of Thunder. He asked Raven to scratch his back. Raven felt an opportunity to do wrong and stole the feather. That night as Raven slept, a lightning bolt hit his house and thunder kept him awake. The next day Raven, with no sleep, returned the feather.” — Robert Sebastian
Object number2020.4.8
Provenance[Pacific Editions Ltd., Victoria, British Columbia]; purchased from gallery by Bruce Colwell, Seattle, Washington; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2020
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Avian Avatars: Birds in Northwest Coast Prints from the Colwell Collection, Dec. 15, 2021 - June 12, 2022.
Credit LineGift of R. Bruce and Mary-Louise Colwell
DimensionsFrame: 35 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. (89.5 x 41.3 cm)
MediumSerigraph
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
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2002
Object number: 2014.4.15
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1987
Object number: 2018.29.115.1
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1991
Object number: 2018.29.117
Robert Sebastian
1991
Object number: 2018.29.119
Robert Sebastian
1992
Object number: 2018.29.120
Robert Sebastian
1997
Object number: 2018.29.122
Robert Sebastian
November 1986
Object number: 2018.29.194
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Robert Sebastian
1987
Object number: 2018.29.115.2
Robert Davidson
1991
Object number: 2020.4.3