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Les aventures du Malin-Castor

Title: Les aventures du Malin-Castor

Creator: Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau

Subject: Visual Arts | Native People | Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau

Description: Wood engraving, ink on Arches paper, 33.5 x 24.5 cm

Engraving in four colours: chestnut brown, red ochre, green and black. In a forest, two women, whose pose alludes to their fright, observe Wily-Beaver being dropped into the cooking pot. The bear's massive black form stands out clearly behind the cauldron. The beaver's red ochre gives a foretaste of what will happen to his poor carcass as soon as the bear's powerful par drops it into the boiling water.

Date Created: 2006

Identifier: pepn/bordeleau06

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