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Andy Wilbur Peterson

From ArtsWA:  Late Canadian Aboriginal artist Art Thompson created Pooq-oobs (drum) in Neah Bay, Washington using traditional Coast Salish drum-making techniques. The figure depicts a whaler thrown overboard during a hunt. Thompson notes, "They wouldn't stop for the man; they would leave him in the water and keep on pursuing the whale, since the whale was an important food source. … Pooq-oobs is represented in white because when a human body is in the water for so long, it bleaches out. He’s got a harpoon and is harpooning the whale below. When his body washes ashore he is so strong-willed from all his preparations for whale hunting that he comes back to life and roams around in the bush, which is represented by hemlock boughs, and he doesn't have hair anymore, so he covers his head to keep it from the sun and the elements, with feathers or cedar bark.”

Resisting Development / Resisting Ruin by our current GHCC Remote Scholar In Residence Graham Murtough. Projects supported in part by the Guest House Cultural Capital Residency with funding from the Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA).  

Resisting Development / Resisting Ruin by our current GHCC Remote Scholar In Residence Graham Murtough. Projects supported in part by the Guest House Cultural Capital Residency with funding from the Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA).