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Honoring the Salmon People (Small Version)
© 1996 Robert Hewson
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Paper: Stonehenge Natural
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Paper Size: 15" x 20" horizontal
3 colors
175 in edition
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Artist's explanation
This design is a representation of the First Salmon
ceremony. Among many of the Northwest tribes, the first salmon caught during
their return upriver to spawn was the object of the ceremony. After thanking
the salmon for providing food for the humans, the salmon was cooked and eaten.
The uneaten scraps, the bones and skin, were returned to the water to be reborn
and return in the following years. Here I show a woman placing the bones in the water. The
salmon returns to the salmon spirit house, which is painted with salmon
designs. In the design on the salmon spirit house, human faces blow eggs into
the belly of the salmon, a symbol of the continued survival of the salmon
people. The smoke curling from the smokeholes of the salmon house represents
ravens as guardian spirits to the salmon, for it was Raven
who first brought salmon to the Northwest Coast.
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Certificate of Authenticity: Printer’s Remarks
This print is a limited edition original serigraph. Working
from Robert’s original drawings and from a related painting, I cut rubylith
stencils for the three colors (black, red, and blue-green) and hand-printed
the three inks on archival paper 20 inches wide and 15 inches tall. The image size is
15 inches wide by 11 inches tall. This print is one of an edition of 175 made on Stonehenge Natural
paper. We also printed 20 artist’s proofs and four printer’s proofs on the
Stonehenge paper. I printed this edition in 1996 with the assistance of the
artist, Robert Hewson.
-Paul Nicholson, Bellevue, WA
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Price: $80
Plus $10 shipping in the U.S.A.
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Item #: 403
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