Norval Morrisseau Prints (Part V)

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"LEGEND OF THE FISH PEOPLE AT THE GREAT FLOOD", 32"x41" (image size: 22"x34"), c. 1980 - Limited Edition Silkscreen (paper, 100% cotton), Edition of 49, © Norval Morrisseau
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The teaching about how a new Earth was created after the Great Flood is one of the classic Nanabush* Stories. It tells of how Nanabush managed to save himself by resting on a chi-mitig (huge log) that was floating on the vast expanse of water that covered Mother Earth.
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* - a trickster; Ojibway hold Nanabush as essential to any contact with the sacred.
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Note: Norval Morrisseau in most of his paintings calls Nanabush as Wasakajak (Wisakedjak; It is spelled also Weesack-kachack) which is the most common term for a trickster that Cree people use in their legend stories.
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