Birds of Norval Morrisseau (Part XVII)

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- 1990's PERIOD
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"Images", © 1990s Norval Morrisseau
/Click on image to Enlarge/
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"The Ojibway believed the thunder to be a great massive bird called thunderbird, whose eyes shoot out lighting and thunder. The first thunder in early spring was something good to hear, for the Ojibway welcomed their protector again from its home in the south where it had been all the winter. Offerings of tobacco were placed on the ground or on water or put into stove to burn, or sacred pipes were smoked by the elders to the thunderbird in the early spring."
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Norval Morrisseau
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NOTE: This painting was initially offered for sale by 'Canada House Gallery', Banff, Alberta but eventually sold by 'Coghlan Art Studio & Gallery', Aldergrove, BC.
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* The acrylic painting on canvas in this post: "Images", © c. 1990s Norval Morrissea /Private Collection/